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Fabaceae

Vachellia

Vachellia polypyrigenes (Greenm.) Seigler & Ebinger

First published in Phytologia 87: 165 (2005 publ. 2006)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Cuba. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution
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Native to:

Cuba

Homotypic Synonyms

Acacia polypyrigenes Greenm. in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 7: 419 (1896)
Poponax polypyrigenes (Greenm.) Britton & Rose in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. 23: 89 (1928)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Acacia cupeyensis León in Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio "De La Salle" 9: 8 (1950)
Acacia curbeloi León in Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio "De La Salle" 10: 241 (1951)

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

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

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

International Legume Database and Information Service
- International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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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