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Senegalia martiusiana

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Steudel) Bocage & L.P. Queiroz

Common Names

• Calumbri
• Garapiá (Brazil
• Unha-de-gato (Brazil)
• Vamos-junto (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Alagoas
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo
• Sergipe - Brazil
• Colombia
• French Guiana
• Paraguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• disturbed forest
• coastal forest
• tropical rain forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Nov (Brazil)
• Jul (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• May (Brazil)

High-climbing liana to 21m or hairy scandent shrub to 2m with recurved spines 2mm long on grooved 4-angled hispid stems. Hairy pinnate leaves, 20-30 pairs of glabrous leaflets with 15-45 pairs of pinna to 4mm x 1mm. Large terminal many-flowered panicles to 12mm diameter with bracts 2mm long of fragrant flowers white with yellow base, toothed calyx to 2mm long, corolla to 3.5mm long. Glabrous dark brown flat legume 140mm x 25mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Fl do Brasil
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Jstor
• Schlectendahlia