Platypodium viride

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| genus = Platypodium

| species = viride

| authority = Vogel

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Platypodium viride is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae found in Peru.{{cite web|url=http://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservationandscience/mab/documents/simab7.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612105408/http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MAB/documents/SIMAB7.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-06-12|title=Urubamba: The Biodiversity of a Peruvian Rainforest|page=28|date=2001}}{{cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2374996|title=Flora of Peru|chapter=Platypodium viride|date=1943|page=269|author=Macbride, J. Francis|volume=13 }} It is one of two accepted species of Platypodium, the other being P. elegans.{{cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Leguminosae/Platypodium/|title=Platypodium|publisher=The Plant List|accessdate=2011-02-19}} It was first described by Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel in 1837.{{cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20102139#page/16/mode/1up|title=Flora of Panama - Platypodium|page=10|journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden|publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden|date=February 1965|author=Robert Woodson, Robert Schery and collaborators|volume=52 |doi=10.2307/2394729|jstor=2394729 }}