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guajillo

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

Phenology Flowering Feb–May.
Habitat Dry, mostly calcareous soils, thorn scrub, desert grasslands.
Elevation 50–1400 m. (200–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas)
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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
Sibling taxa
S. greggii, S. roemeriana, S. wrightii, S. ×emoryana, S. ×turneri
Synonyms Acacia berlandieri
Name authority (Bentham) Britton & Rose in N. L. Britton et al.: N. Amer. Fl. 23: 109. (1928)
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