senegalia

plural senegalias

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

   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.

   2022 February 16, Mike Meidlinger, “Marataba – A Land of Magic, Memories and Nature at Its Best”, in www.morefieldguidecollege.co.za, MORE Field Guide College

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   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.

   2012 January 5, Colin Beale, “Ecology of broad-leaved woodlands in the savannah”, in Safari Ecology, Blospot.com

   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).

   2024 January 29, Moustapha Soungalo Drabo, Els J.M. Van Damme, Tibo De Coninck, Isabel Verbeke, Bruno De Meulenaer, Aly Savadogo, Katleen Raes, “Nutritional, phytochemical, and safety profiling of Senegalia seeds, promising wild legumes in the arid and semi-arid tropics”, in Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, volume 125, ScienceDirect, →DOI