Leguminosae-mim Acacia tamarindifolia (L.) Willd.

| |	© C. Hughes

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Places where this species can be found :

• Mt. Hartman Estate - GRENADA
• Top Hill - GRENADA
• Clabony, above Bylands - GRENADA
• Calliste - GRENADA

Specimen information

Collection Date
01/12/1999

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, C. Hughes

Specimen Number
311

Location
Mt. Hartman Grenada Dove Sanctuary, 4.5km S of St. Gweorge's.

Notes
Small bushy tree to 4m ht. Young twigs green, prickles green with a black tip, black on older twigs with black lines or ridges between the prickles. Large leafy stipules or bracts on flowering shoots. Leaves with orange rachis gland; leaf rachis with recurved prickles. Flower heads arranged on long terminal 1-branched flowering shoots. Flowers: buds yellow-green, calyx and corolla creamy yellow-grean, stamen filaments white. Common in highly disturbed coastal thickets and along the margins of pasture with Bauhinia, Bourreria, Croton and Leucaena.

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.000000 N   Longitude: 61.460000 W   Altitude: 30