Chloroleucon

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Brazilian rain tree - chloroleucon tortum - 4 (7537144616).jpg

|image_caption = Chloroleucon tortum

|taxon = Chloroleucon

|authority = (Benth.) Record (1927){{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?13968 |title=Genus: Chloroleucon (Benth.) Britton & Rose |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2006-12-14 |accessdate=2010-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507011039/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?13968 |archive-date=2009-05-07 |url-status=dead }}

|type_species = Chloroleucon vincentis

|type_species_authority = (Benth.) Britton & Rose

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 11; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21999-1 Chloroleucon (Benth.) Record]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 August 2023.

|synonyms =

• Chloroleucum Britton & Rose ex Record
• Pithecellobium sect. Chloroleucon Benth.

}}

Chloroleucon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains 11 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico through Central America, the Caribbean, and South America to northern Argentina. Some authorities consider it part of the genus Albizia. Its name is derived from the Greek words χλωρóς (chloros), meaning "green," and λευκός (leukos), meaning "white."{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esMPU5DHEGgC |first=Umberto |last=Quattrocchi |title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: A-C |year=2000 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-2675-2 |page=522}}