Pithecoctenium
 Pithecoctenium is a Bignoniaceae genus of some 20 species of climbing shrubs occurring in the Caribbean and Tropical South America from Brazil to Mexico. Leaves are opposite with 3 entire and stalked leaflets the terminal leaflet sometimes being modified into a tendril. The genus has distinctive prickly capsules. The white or violet flowers are in simple racemes sometimes branched. The genus is closely related to Bignonia and Anemopaegma.Pithecoctenium crucigerum (L.) A.H.