Discolobium pulchellum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to South America and natively occurs in Bolivia, Paraguay, West-Central Brazil and Northeast Argentina.
Taxonomy The species was first described by George Bentham as Discolobium elongatum, which was renamed in 1937 to its current binomial name.
Etymology The Latin specific epithet pulchellum means "pretty little" or "beautiful little" and is the diminutive form of the Latin word pulcher, which means "beautiful"Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 641.
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