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Name

Acaciella angustissima var. filicioides (Cav.) L.  Rico, Kew Bull. 59(2): 327. 2004.

Rico Arce & Bachman
Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid
Vol. 63(2): 189-244
July-December 2006

Synonymy and types

Mimosa filicioides Cav., Ic. 1: 55 tab. 78 (1791). Acacia  filicioides (Cav.) Trel., Annual Rep. Geol. Surv. Arkansas 1888 (4): 178. 1891. Acaciella filicioides  (Cav.) Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 100. 1928. Type: Mexico: "Vidi floridam in dicto horto mense Octobri"  (lectotype, designated here, MA 259538!). 

Acacia filicina Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 1072. 1806. Type: Mexico: "ex Horto Patarino 1804" (lectotype  designated here, B-Willd,; photograph of lectotype  MEXU! ex B., microfiche IDC.7440.1389 I-5, K!). 

Acacia hirsuta Schldl., Linnaea 12: 572. 1838. Acaciella  hirsuta (Schldl.) Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23:  99. 1928. Senegalia hirsuta (Schldl.) Pittier, Man.  Pl. Usual. Venez. (Suppl.): 36. 1939. Type: Mexico: Veracruz, Tiocelo [Teocelo], Shiede &  Deppé s.n. (lectotype, designated here, HAL; isolectotypes,  G!, US! [fragment], OXF!). 

Acacia stipellata Schltdl. Linnaea 12: 574. 1838. Type: Mexico: [near Mexico City], Mühlenpfordt s.n.  (holotype, HAL; isotype, US! [fragment], photograph  of type K!). 

Senegalia popayana Britton & Killip, Ann. New York  Acad. Sc. 35: 143. 1936. Type: Colombia: Popayán, El Cauca, 17-IV-1876, André  2773 (holotype, NY!; isotype, K!). 

Acaciella holtonii Britton & Killip, Ann. New York  Aca. Sci. 140. 1936. Type: Colombia: El Valle, La Paila, 30 May, 1853, I.  Holton 998 (holotype, NY!; isotype, K!). 

Acaciella martensis Britton & Killip, Ann. New York  Acad. Sci. 35(3): 140. 1936. Type: Colombia; "Onaca, Santa Marta, Magdalena, 7  Feb. 1899, H.H. Smith 295a (holotype, NY!; isotypes  BM!, G!, K!).

Formal description

Small tree up to 5(10) m tall, usually yellow-hirsute  throughout, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves 7-15  cm long, with 18-32 pairs of pinnae; pinnae 3-4.5 cm  long, with paraphyllidia to 0.75 mm long. Racemes axillary  and terminal, on a main axis, 13-16 cm long, yellow  or whitish hirsute, peduncles without pearl  glands. Calyx 0.6-1 mm long. Corolla 2-3 mm long.  Legume 4.8-6 × 1.4 × 0.3 cm, plus a beak up to 4 mm  long, sometimes curved.

Distribution

Found naturally from the United States  of America, south through Mexico and Central America  to Colombia,Venzuela and Bolivia. It has not been  recorded from Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, and other  South American countries as a native variety.

Additional info

Habitat. Mainly in Pinus-Quercus forest, less often in seasonally dry forest and transitional vegetation between the two; also in dry scrub; a few reports in Pinus-Juniperus forest, grassland, occasionally in secondary succession of humid rain forest; paramo (Venezuela); prefers black or red acid soils. Alt. (250)800-2200(2600) m.

Vernacular names and uses. Chilicap, timbre.  Leaves are used as forage (livestock, including  turkeys), roots used for tanning, and the bark is  chewed to strenghten gums; an infusion of leaves is reported  to cure diarrohea.

Flowering time

Flowering and fruiting all year.

Representative specimens

BOLIVIA:

Beni:

COLOMBIA:

Salgar:

Valle del Cauca:

COSTA RICA:

San José:

GUATEMALA:

MEXICO:

Campeche:

Chiapas:

Chihuahua:

Coahuila:

Durango:

Guanajuato:

Guerrero:

Hidalgo:

Jalisco:

México:

Michoacán:

Morelos:

Nayarit:

Oaxaca:

Puebla:

Querétaro:

Quintana  Roo:

San  Luis Potosí:

Sinaloa:

Sonora:

Veracruz:

Yucatán:

NICARAGUA:

Matagalpa:

USA:

Arizona:

California:

New Mexico:

Oklahoma:

Texas:

VENEZUELA:

Aragua:

Tachira:

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