(1837) Pterodon is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.

It includes four species of trees native to Brazil and Bolivia.

Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland (cerrado), and thorn shrubland (caatinga), often on rocky outcrops.

Pterodon can be distinguished from other members of the Dipterygeae as follows: the leaf rachis is exalate, the fruit is a cryptosamara with oil glands in the epicarp, the seed testa is smooth and the raphe is apparent, with the hilum in a lateral position covered by an aril and a smooth embryo.

[2]Four species are accepted:[1][3][4] This Faboideae-related article is a stub.