9; see text Poecilanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina.

They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.

[1] Several Amazonian species formerly classed in Poelicanthe were reclassified into the new genera Amphiodon and Limadendron based on a 2014 molecular and morphogenetic analysis.

[2] Poecilanthe comprises the following species:[1][3][4][5][2][6] This Faboideae-related article is a stub.