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Vachellia cornigera (L.) Seigler & Ebinger, Phytologia 87(3): 153 (2005)
Name Status. Accepted Name
Notes. Cultivated in India as a curiosity on account of its prominent spiny stipules, which in nature are inhabited by ants that protect the plants against herbivores (fide Kumar and Sane 2003).
SYNONYMY
Mimosa cornigera L. (1753) [Basionym]
Acacia cornigera (L.) Willd. (1806) [Homotypic synonym]Acacia cornigera (L.) Willd. var. cornigera (1825) [Autonym]Tauroceras cornigerum (L.) Britton & Rose (1928) [Homotypic synonym]
Acacia cornigera var. americana DC. (1825) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia spadicigera Schltdl. & Cham. (1830) [Heterotypic synonym]Tauroceras spadicigerum (Schltdl. & Cham.) Britton & Rose (1928) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia campecheana Schenck (1913) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia cubensis Schenck (1913) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia interjecta Schenck (1913) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia nicoyensis Schenck (1913) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia rossiana Schenck (1913) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia furcella Saff. (1914) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia hernandezii Saff. (1914) [Heterotypic synonym]
Acacia turgida Saff. (1942) [Heterotypic synonym]
DISTRIBUTION
CARIBBEAN [I]: Cuba
, Guadeloupe, Martinique. CENTRAL AMERICA [N]: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua. INDIAN OCEAN [I]: Mauritius. INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India [Or] (Maharashtra, West Bengal), Pakistan [I]. NORTH AMERICA [I] (Florida). SOUTH AMERICA [I]: Colombia. WEST ASIA [I]: Iraq
Abbreviations: [I - Introduced, N - Native, Or - Ornamental].
TYPE INFORMATION
Type. Based on Mimosa cornigera L.
FURTHER INFORMATION
- Tropicos - Information-rich resource provided by Missouri Botanic Gardens.
- Seigler et al. (2015) - Taxonomic treatment (unpublished) produced by D. Seigler and colleagues and generously made available to WorldWideWattle in 2015
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