senegalia

noun

1. Any leguminous plant of the genus Senegalia, closely related to acacias, found across the Southern Hemisphere.

   “As we should know by now, these ridges are likely to have very poor nutrient loads in their soils - the ridges are often of very old rocks, 550 Million years old or more and have been well and truly washed by rain for much of that time, with the nutrients that were once present now washed down hills to the lower areas where they get used by Vachellia/Senegalias and grasses.”

   “As you move through the reserve, the broad-leaved species give way to sharp-toothed Vachelias and Senegalias in the family formerly known as Acacia.”

   “For instance, Senegalias are wild and perennial legume plants (subfamily Caesalpinioideae) and the second largest segregate genus of the 7 segregate genera of Acacia sensu lato (i.e., Acacia sensu stricto (1082 species), Senegalia (221 species), Vachellia (164 species), Acaciella (15 species), Mariosousa (14 species), Parasenegalia (11), and Pseudosenegalia (2 species)) (Maslin et al., 2019, Terra et al., 2022).”