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Fabaceae

Vachellia

Vachellia acuifera (Benth.) Seigler & Ebinger

First published in Phytologia 87: 142 (2005 publ. 2006)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Bahamas to Turcs-Caicos Islands. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Taxonomy

Distribution
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Native to:

Bahamas, Cuba, Turks-Caicos Is.

Homotypic Synonyms

Acacia acuifera Benth. in London J. Bot. 1: 496 (1842)
Bahamia acuifera (Benth.) Britton & Rose in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. 23: 86 (1928)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Cojoba micrantha (Benth.) Britton & Rose in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. 23: 30 (1928)
Feuilleea micrantha (Benth.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 188 (1891)
Pithecellobium micranthum Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 589 (1875)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Clarke, H.D., Seigler, D.S. & Ebinger, J.E. (2009). Taxonomic revision of the Vachellia acuifera species group (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) in the Caribbean. Systematic Botany 34: 84-101.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0