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Senegalia riparia

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Kunth) Britton & Rose

Common Names

• Cari Cari

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Ceará
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rondonia
• São Paulo
• Santa Catarina - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guadeloupe
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Venezuela
• Virgin Islands - USA
• West Indies
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forests
• rocky slopes
• swamps
• coastal
• dry forest
• riverbank
• moist forest
• primary forest
• riverside
• montane shrubland.

Flowering Times

• Jul (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Apr (Trinidad & Tobago)

Tall prickly glabrous climbing shrub or woody liana or tree with 4-ribbed stems & sparse 3mm recurved spines. Bipinnate leaves to 150mm long with 20-30 pairs of puberulent or glabrous leaflets to 7mm x 1.5mm, hooked prickles. Terminal or axillary puberulent panicles with bracts of fragrant white or yellowish flowers, puberulent calyx 1mm long, puberulent corolla to 4mm long. 200mm x 30mm glabrous or puberulent pods hooked at apex.

Further References

• NYBG
• Jstor
• ILDIS
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• FOPE
• SAFIO