Wild Flowering Plants
| Fabaceae-Mimosoideae family Vachellia macracantha (Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) Seigler & Ebinger, Phytologia 87(3): 160. 2006. Bas.: Acacia macracantha Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow (1806). Zakasya Indigenous tree of dry coastal areas. Common Vieux Fort town to Black Bay, rare/absent elsewhere. St. Martin, Barbuda, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, Tortola, Greater Antilles, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. There are three spiny 'acacia' trees with yellow flowers, Vachellia farnesiana, Vachellia macracantha and Acacia nilotica. They are most easily distinguished by their pods. |