Senegalia Rafinesque. Common name: Acacia, Catclaw.
A genus of about 235 species, trees, shrubs, and liana, of tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate Americas, Africa, Asia, and rarely Australia. It is likely that Senegalia will be further split and recircumscribed based on its non-monophyly and diverse morphological characters (Terra et al. 2022).
Subfamily: Caesalpinoideae. clade: Mimosoid clade.References: Isely (1973); Isely (1998); Seigler & Ebinger (2023) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2023a); Terra et al. (2022). Show full citations.
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© Alan Cressler: Senegalia greggii, near Closed Canyon, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio County, Texas 1 by Alan Cressler | Senegalia greggii source | Original Image ⭷
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