''Senegalia hayesii'' is a species of
plant in the family
.
[ It is native to ]Bolivia
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, Costa Rica
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, Guatemala
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, Honduras
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, Mexico, Panamá, and Venezuela.
Description
''Senegalia hayesii'' is a woody, clambering vine. The branches are a densely covered in very short soft hairs and have many small prickles. The bipinnate leaves are 30 to 40 cm. long, with 8 to 10 pairs of pinnae, each having 10-20 pairs of final leaflets. the midvein of the leaves is excentric. The flowers occur in spikes which are 10–12 mm long, and have calyces 2 mm long, with corollas 4 mm long.
Taxonomy
It was first described by George Bentham in 1875 as ''Acacia hayesii'',[ from a specimen collected in Panama by S. Hayes,][ and was redescribed in 1928 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose as ''Senegalia hayesii.][
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References
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hayesii
Plants described in 1875