Taxon: Vachellia macracantha (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Seigler & Ebinger

Genus:

Vachellia

Family:

Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Caesalpinioideae

Tribe:

Acacieae

Nomen number:

450079

Place of publication:

Phytologia 87:160. 2006 ("2005")

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

28-mar-2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 15-ago-2012

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

79 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Synonyms:

(=) Acacia flexuosa Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
(=) Acacia lutea (Mill.) Britton
Basionym: Acacia macracantha Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
(=) Acacia macracanthoides Bertero ex DC.
(=) Acacia pellacantha Meyen ex Vogel
(=) Mimosa lutea Mill.
(≡) Poponax macracantha (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Killip
(=) Poponax macracanthoides (Bertero ex DC.) Britton & Rose
(=) Vachellia lutea (Mill.) Speg.

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida (s.)]
NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Sinaloa, Sonora]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz]

Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, [Trinidad] Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.)
CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador (incl. Galapagos), Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina (n.w.), Chile (n.), Paraguay

Cultivated

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Panama

Check other web resources for Vachellia macracantha (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Seigler & Ebinger :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=450079. Accessed 7 junio 2026.