Vachellia farnesiana (L.) Wight & Arn.
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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 shrub or small tree up to about 9 m. high, its thin brown bark scaly, the slender branches spreading, the twigs armed with stiff paired whitish spines 1-2.5 cm. long. Leaves glabrous or more or less pubescent, evenly bipinnate, 4-8 cm. long, short-petioled; pinnae 3-8 pairs, sessile or nearly so; leaflets 10-25 pairs, linear-oblong, 2-6 mm. long, bluntish at the apex; peduncles axillary, slender, mostly shorter than the leaves; heads 8-12 mm. in diameter; flowers yellow, fragrant; calyx about half as long as the corolla; corolla about 1.5 mm. long; stamens 2-3 times as long as the corolla; pod straight or a little curved, 3-7.5 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. thick, pointed, dark brown; seeds shining, 6 mm. long.
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Distribution
Waste and schub-lands and coastal thickets, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera,
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