Senegalia megaladena (Desv.) Maslin, Seigler & Ebinger

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Senegalia

Characteristics

A climbing or spiny shrub. Young branches are hairy. The leaf stalk is 3-7 cm long. There are 8-20 pairs of pinnae and 19-81 pairs of leaflets. The flowers are in round heads. They are light yellow. The fruit are flat pods. They are 10-17 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. The seeds are brown and oval. They are 7-9 mm long by 5-6 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 25.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in thick forests between 800-1,600 m above sea level.
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses food hedge medicinal poison tanning
Edible leaves
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Distribution

Senegalia megaladena world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77132514-1
WFO ID wfo-0001337076
COL ID 4WP22
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Albizia tenerrima Acacia paludosa Acacia tenerrima Acacia megaladena Acacia brunnescens Albizia tenerrima Acacia arrophula Senegalia megaladena Acacia megaladena var. megaladena Acacia pennata var. arrophula Acacia megaladena var. indo-chinensis Senegalia megaladena var. garrettii Senegalia megaladena var. indochinensis Acacia megaladena var. garrettii

Lower taxons

Senegalia megaladena var. megaladena