Wild Flowering Plants
| Fabaceae-Mimosoideae family Vachellia farnesiana (Linnaeus) Wight & Arnott, Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 272. 1834. Bas.: Mimosa farnesiana Linnaeus (1753). Syn.: Acacia farnesiana (Linnaeus) Willdenow (1806). Zakasya Indigenous quite common tree/shrub of open dry areas at low elevations. Widely naturalized, exact native range obscure. There are three spiny 'acacia' trees with yellow flowers, Vachellia farnesiana, Vachellia macracantha, and Acacia nilotica They are most easily distinguished by their pods. |