... Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil8 Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Ceara´, Sobral, Brazil9 Laboratorio de Bioquı´mica Marinha, Departamento ... Mimosoideae thathave been functionally and structurally characterizedare those from seeds of species of the genus Parkia,including Parkia speciosa [14], Parkia javanica [15],Parkia discolor [16] and ... comprising about 30 species found inthe neotropics from Honduras to south-eastern Brazil,West Africa, the northern part of Malaysia and thesouth of Thailand. Parkia platycephala is an importantforage...