Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Senegalia iguana (M. Micheli) Britton & Rose
Acacia Iguana M. Micheli, Mem. Soc. Geneve 34: 281. 190.^.
A high climbing shrub, up to 15 m. long, the twigs toraentose, bearing numerous short reflexed prickles. Petiole prickly, bearing a large gland near its base; pinnae 6-8 pairs; leaflets 15-25 pairs, oblong, 10-16 mm. long, acute, glabrous above, pale and pubescent beneath, ciliate, the midvein excentric; inflorescence more or less paniculate; spikes 4-5 cm. long, densely flowered; calyx 2.5 mm. long, angled, pubescent; corolla 4-5 mm. long, pubescent; stamens numerous, short; ovary long-stipitate, pubescent.
Type locality: La Puerta, west coast of Mexico [Guerrero?]. Distribution: Known only from near the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
