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Senegalia tenuifolia
Senegalia tenuifolia
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Willdenow
Common Names
- Bejuco Cochino
- Tocino
- Arana Gato
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Bahia
- Pará
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo
- Minas Gerais
- Piaui
- Ceará
- Alagoas - Brazil
- Cuba
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guadeloupe
- Guyana
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- forests
- riversides
- seasonally innundated areas
- forest edge
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- May
- Jun
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Unarmed or thorny high-climbing liana, tree to 9m or shrub with cylindrical glabrescent branches armed with straight or mostly recurved prickles to 3mm long. Puberulent branchlets. Bipinnate leaves with 10-32 pairs of 20-60 pairs of leaflets, leaflets to 6mm x 1.5mm. Fragrant axillary puberulent fascicles or panicles to 10mm diameter with bracts 1mm long, flowers white with glabrous calyx & corolla, calyx to 2mm long, corolla to 3mm long. Glabrous or puberulent flat coriaceous fruit light brown to 250mm x 35mm.
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- NYBG
- APDC
- NAF
- ILDIS
- FOPE
- Standley
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Schlechtendahlia