Senegalia rafinesqueana Terra & Garcia (2019: 34)

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 271

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.501.2.2

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Senegalia rafinesqueana Terra & Garcia (2019: 34)
status

 

59. Senegalia rafinesqueana Terra & Garcia (2019: 34) View in CoL

Distribution: The species is endemic to Brazil and occurs only in the state of Paraná (Terra & Garcia 2019). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs only in the Capanema area.

Reproductive period: According to Terra & Garcia (2019) it flowers and fruits in October. In ParNa Iguaçu it was collected with fruits in October.

Diagnostic characteristics: The species is similar to Senegalia velutina in its lianascent habit, bipinnate leaves with spicate inflorescences and nectaries only on the petiole, yet it can be differentiated by its oblong, verruciform nectaries (vs. obovate, verruciform in S. velutina ) and inflorescences 8–10 cm long (vs. 3–4 cm long).

Conservation: Native-NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Area 2, Capanema , 2 September 2019, (fr.), C.R. Rauber et al 421 ( UNOP) .

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Senegalia

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