-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)

-Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies (Order Fabales)

-Legumes (Family Fabaceae)

-Subfamily Faboideae

-Tribe Robinieae

-Genus Gliricidia

-Fence Post Tree (Gliricidia sepium)

Gliricidia is a small, rapidly growing, and thornless tree with bright pink flowers. Gliricidia is native to the seasonally dry Pacific coast of Central America. It is one of the commonest and best-known trees in Central America and now has a pantropical distribution cultivated in villages, farms, backyards and along fence lines, paddy bunds, roadsides and terrace boundaries.