Leguminosae-mim Acacia hindsii Benth.

Leguminosae-mim Acacia hindsii

| | © C.E. Hughes

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Keywords in this picture :

Fruit
Flower & fruit
Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

Chacalapa - HUGHESFRP
Comayagua - HUGHESFRP

Specimen information

Collection Date
18/02/2000

Collector
Hughes CE

Specimen Number
1910

Location
2km N Chacalapa, track to San Miguel Chongos.

Notes
Small, multi-stemmed tree to 5m ht. Outer bark vertically striped pale tan and mid grey-brown. Slash thin, fibrous, thin green layer, then cream. Paired swollen reddish-brown thorns with ants. Fls on compact spikes, stamen filaments bright yellow, sweet smelling like Acacia farnesiana. Pods dehiscent along one suture revealing a sausage of pale yellow sweet treacle-flavoured pulp surrounding the seeds, suggesting bird dispersal. Abundant in secondary thorn scrub in c.5yr-old 'guamil' with Ipomoea wolcottiana, Piptadenia obliqua and Gliricidia sepium.

Coordinates
Latitude: 15.550000 N Longitude: 95.560000 W Altitude: 260