Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Aroma, Long-Spine Acacia, Long-Spined Acacia, Park Nut, Porknut, Stink Casha, Wild Tamarind
Common Names in Informal Latinized N:
Acacia, Acacia Piquant, Acacia Savane
Description
Subfamily Mimosoideae
Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly bipinnate. Corolla usually not showy, actinomorphic , sympetalous , the lobes valvate . Stamens 10-numerous, often monadelphous , showy. Pollen released in monads , tetrads , or polyads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) present. [Carr]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
()
- Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Acacia macracantha Humb. & Bonpl. Ex Willd. • Acacia macracantha Willd. • Mimosa Macracantha • Mimosa macracantha (Humb. & Bonpl. Ex Willd.) Poir. • Poponax macracantha (Humb. & Bonpl. Ex Willd.) Killip
Similar Species
Members of the genus Vachellia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
V. albicorticata (Tusca Blanca) · V. anegadensis (Blackbrush Wattle) · V. caven (Aromo Criollo) · V. choriophylla (Florida Acacia) · V. collinsii (Bull Horn Acacia) · V. cornigera (Bullhorn Acacia) · V. macracantha (Long-Spined Acacia) · V. pachyphloia (Deep Water Arrowtooth Eel) · V. pennatula (Fern-Leaf Acacia) · V. rigidula (Blackbrush Acacia) · V. schaffneri (Schaffner's Wattle) · V. schottii (Schott's Wattle) · V. sutherlandii (Vinson''s Goby) · V. tortuosa (Bayahonde Rouge)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 22, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8575760
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15626496
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60441223-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3550519
