Senegalia berlandieri |
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guajillo |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees to 6 m; bark light to dark gray, smooth; prickles absent or ± straight, widely scattered along twigs, petioles, and rachises. |
Stems | not flexuous, with decurrent lines from leaf bases, usually puberulent, rarely glabrous; short shoots absent. |
Leaves | 35–165 mm; stipules linear, to 4.5 mm, puberulent; petiole 7–28 mm, usually puberulent; petiolar gland adnate to expanded petiole channel, narrowly elliptic, 1.2–3.5 mm; rachis 25–145 mm; pinnae 7–14(–19) pairs, 30–75 mm; leaflets 25–55 pairs per pinna, blades linear, 2.8–7.2 × 0.7–1.4(–1.8) mm, base oblique and obtuse, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or puberulent. |
Inflorescences | densely flowered, globose heads, 12–18 mm diam., 1 in leaf axils or in terminal pseudoracemes or pseudopanicles, to 250 mm. |
Peduncles | 6–30 mm. |
Flowers | sessile; calyx 1.2–2 mm, puberulent; corolla white, 2–3 mm, puberulent; filaments 6–8 mm. |
Legumes | 70–160 × 15–30 mm, not constricted between seeds. |
2n | = 26. |
Senegalia berlandieri |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–May. |
Habitat | Dry, mostly calcareous soils, thorn scrub, desert grasslands. |
Elevation | 50–1400 m. (200–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas) |
Discussion | Senegalia berlandieri is common on limestone ridges and caliche cuestas of central and southern Texas, where it commonly dominates the vegetation. It hybridizes with S. greggii (= S. × emoryana) and S. wrightii (= S. × turneri). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Senegalia |
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Synonyms | Acacia berlandieri |
Name authority | (Bentham) Britton & Rose in N. L. Britton et al.: N. Amer. Fl. 23: 109. (1928) |
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