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Libidibia monosperma (Tul.) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis

Cobana Negra

Fabaceae · Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico

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Summary

Libidibia monosperma is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae, with the common names cóbana negra and cóbana polisandro. It is found in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. It is a federally listed threatened species of the United States.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Libidibia monosperma", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Libidibia

Libidibia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes seven species of trees and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, ranging from northern Mexico to northern Argentina. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and scrub, thorn forest, and savanna woodland. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Libidibia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 69 of the 78 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDominican Republic, Puerto Rico · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker18.387, -66.029 · in the densest population, 67 records (86% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 78 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 28 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 24 km away. 13 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 69 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 78 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Alex Doyle, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Libidibia 9 in the reference

Libidibia coriaria Libidibia coriaria Divi-divi Photo: CC BY, nebrooksLibidibia ferrea Libidibia ferrea Brazilian ironwood Photo: CC BY, Caleb CattoLibidibia glabrata Libidibia glabrata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Raúl A. Ruiz M. Libidibia juca Fabaceae Libidibia leiostachya Fabaceae Libidibia paraguariensis Libidibia paraguariensis Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Agustín Zarco Libidibia parvifolia Fabaceae Libidibia punctata Libidibia punctata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Luis Rubio-YépezLibidibia sclerocarpa Libidibia sclerocarpa Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez

Names & registers

Also known as Caesalpinia monosperma; Stahlia maritima; Stahlia monosperma; Stahlia monosperma var. domingensis; Tachia punctata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Tul.) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis
Native to
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
Wild records
78 in range · 28 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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