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Parasenegalia vogeliana

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Steudel) Seigler & Ebinger

Common Names

• Doubtful Acacia
• Macata Bourse Bastard (Puerto Rico) Acacia Marron (French)
• Tchia-Tchia Marron (Haiti)
• Cha-Cha Venenoso (Spanish) Mata Puerco (Spanish) Taquito (Dominican Republic)

Geographical Habitats

• Hispaniola
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• scrabland
• secondary vegetation
• thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Aug (Puerto Rico)
• Jun-Sep (Dominican Republic)

Fruiting Times

• Jan (Puerto Rico)

Unarmed glabrous liana, tree or shrub to 17m with twining lateral branches. Bipinnate leaves to 145mm x 6mm with 8-15 pairs of glabrous leaflets to 15mm long. Terminal or axillary tomentose panicles to 35mm long with bracts to 0.9mm, 5-lobed calyx to 1.8mm long, 5-lobed white, yellow or cream strigose corolla to 3.1mm long. Flattened glabrous legume 170mm x 32mm.

Further References

• NYBG
• VOPR
• NAF
• SAFIO
• Academia (Para/Senegalia)