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Acacia tortuosa (L.)Willd.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia tortuosa (L.)Willd. [Preferred name]
    Acacia subtortuosa Britton & Shafer {Synonym}
    Mimosa tortuosa L. {Synonym}
    Prosopis microphylla Kunth {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Acacia [2157]; Alabama Cossy [1790]; Bayahonde Rouge [2157]; Carambomba [2157]; Casia [1430]; Cossie [1790]; Pompons Jaunes [1790]; Twisted Acacia [1430]; Wild Poponax [1056]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Caribbean
Jamaica (N) [1056]; Puerto Rico (N) [1056]
  Central America
Costa Rica (U) [1614]; Guatemala (U) [1645]; Mexico(North & Central) (N) [1430, 1460, 1645]; Mexico(South East) (N) [1430, 1460, 1645]
  North America
United States (N) [1360, 1431, 1460, 1614, 1680, 3157]; Florida [3157]
  South America
Colombia (N) [1292]; Ecuador (N) [1430]; Venezuela (N) [1661]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1056, 1360, 1645, 1790]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3157] ; Habit: Shrub [1056], Tree [1056] ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 Zarucchi JL

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1056.

  Adams, C.D., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Jamaica Univ. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

1292.

  Garcia-Barriga, H. & Forero, E., 1968
    Catalogo Ilustrado de Las Plantas de Cundinamarca 3:1-136

1340.

  Howard, R.A. & Staples, G.W., 1983
    J.Arnold Arbor.64(4):511-546 Modern Names Catesby's Plants

1360.

  Isely, D., 1973
    Mem.New York Bot.Gard.25(1):1-152 Legum. of the U.S.: I.

1430.

  Liogier, A.H., 1988
    Desc. Flora Puerto Rico & Adjacent Is-Spermatophyta Vol. II

1431.

  List Based Record, 1986
    U.S. Soil Conservation Service

1460.

  Matuda, E., 1981
    Gobierno del Estado de Mexico.Las Legum. del Estado Mexico

1614.

  Seymour, F.C., 1981
    Phytologia 48(1):1-71 Bipinnate Leguminosae of Nicaragua

1645.

  Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A, 1946
    Fieldiana, Bot. 24(5):1-425 Leguminosae

1661.

  Steyermark, J.A. & Huber, O., 1978
    Flora del Avila 514-565 Leguminosae (Fabaceae)

1680.

  Turner, B.L., 1959
    Univ. of Texas Press, Austin. 284 pp The Legumes of Texas

1790.

  Howard, R.A. et al., 1988
    Dicotyledoneae Part 1.Fl. Lesser Antilles Arnold Arboretum

2157.

  Liogier, A.H., 1985
    La Flore de la Espanola.III

3157.

  Isely, D., 1998
    Native & naturalized Leg.of the USA.Brigham Young Univ.Utah

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