Acacia macracantha Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A widely branched tree, 5-15 m. high, or sometimes a shrub, the young twigs slender, tomentose or pubescent, the tortuous branches armed with stipular spines 6 cm. long or less, or sometimes unarmed. Leaves tomentose or pubescent, the short petiole bearing a sessile depressed gland; pinnae 8-40 pairs, short-stalked, 2-4 cm. long; leaflets 15-40 pairs, linear, 2-5 mm. long, obtuse, sessile, glabrous or nearly so; peduncles clustered or solitary in the upper axils, slender, pubescent, 1-3 cm. long; flowers yellow, capitate; heads globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter; pod linear, tomentulose, turgid-compressed, 6-10 cm. long, straight or a little curved, continuous or more or less torulose, somewhat pulpy.
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Distribution
Rocky plain, Salt Cay, Turk's Islands ; in a yard, Matthew Town, Inagua : Jamaica ; Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Vieques ; St. Thomas to Tortola, Martinique and Venezuela. Long-spined Acacia.
Jamaica South America| Cuba South America| West Indies| Vieques Puerto Rico South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Martinique South America| Venezuela South America|