Parasenegalia and Pseudosenegalia (Fabaceae): New Genera of the Mimosoideae
Author
Seigler, David S.
Author
Ebinger, John E.
Author
Riggins, Chance W.
Author
Terra, Vanessa
Author
Miller, Joseph T.
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2.
Pseudosenegalia riograndensis (Atahuachi & L. Rico) Seigler & Ebinger
,
comb nov.
Basionym:
Acacia riograndensis
Atahuachi & L. Rico, Kew Bull.
62: 605. 2007.
TYPE:
Bolivia
.
Cochabamba
:
Prov. Campero
,
Pasorapa, en la bajada de Buenavista hacia el Rıo Grande
,
1447 m
,
27 Dec. 2004
,
J. R. I. Wood
,
M. Atahuachi
&
M. Mercado
21251
(
holotype
,
BOLV
; isotypes,
K
! [barcode]
K
00503018,
K
! [bc]
K
005033019,
LPB
[bc]
LPB0
0 0 0 6 7 6,
MEXU
[bc]
MEXU0128851
).
Figure 11
.
Figure 11.
Pseudosenegalia riograndensis
(Atahuachi & L. Rico) Seigler & Ebinger.
—A. Twig with inflorescences and leaves. —B. Fruit. —C. Leaflet, adaxial surface. —D. Flower. —E. Petiolar gland. A–E from
Antezana 1325
(NY).
Tree to 12 m tall; bark nearly white, smooth to shallowly fissured; twigs orange to reddish brown, not flexuous, terete, glabrous; short shoots present at some nodes, 0.4–1 mm long, with a few leaves attached; prickles absent. Leaves alternate, also clustered at short shoots, 15–55 mm long; stipules light brown, linear, symmetrical, flattened, straight, herbaceous, 1–2.5
X
0.1–0.2 mm, glabrous, usually persistent; petiole adaxially grooved, 4–13 mm long, glabrous; petiolar gland solitary, located just below to nearly between the lowermost pinna pair, sessile; orbicular to oval, 0.4–1.1 mm across, apex depressed, glabrous, sometimes absent; rachis adaxially grooved, 5–40 mm long, glabrous, an orbicular gland 0.3–0.7 mm across between the uppermost 1 to 2 pinna pair, apex depressed, glabrous; pinnae 3 to 7 pairs/leaf, 9– 2 0 mm long, 3–1 2 mm between pinna pairs; paraphyllidia absent; petiolule 0.9–2.1 mm long; leaflets 12 to 26 pairs/pinna, opposite, 0.8–1.7 mm between leaflet pairs, linear, 1.2–2.9
X
0.5–0.9 mm, glabrous, lateral veins not obvious, 1 vein from the base, base oblique, truncate on one side, margins lightly ciliate, apex obtuse, midvein subcentral. Inflorescence a loosely 40- to 90-flowered cylindrical spike, 28–60
X
12–18 mm, solitary from the leaf axils; peduncles 5–16
X
0.3–0.8 mm, glabrous; receptacle not enlarged; involucre absent; floral bracts spatulate, 0.7–1.1 mm long, ciliate, persistent. Flowers sessile, white; calyx 5-lobed, 1.5–2.2 mm long, lightly puberulent; corolla 5-lobed, 3.5–6 mm long, glabrous to puberulent, lobes 1/5 the length of the corolla; stamens 100 to 140; stamen filaments 7.5–9.5 mm long, distinct; anther glands absent; ovary glabrous, stipe to 2.1 mm long. Legumes straight, flattened, not constricted between the seeds, oblong, 95–130
X
10–15 mm, coriaceous, transversely striated, glabrous, eglandular, dehiscent along both sutures; stipe 6–11 mm long; apex acute, short beaked; seeds uniseriate, with no pulp, light brown, ellipsoid, strongly flattened, 9–11
X
6–7 mm, smooth; pleurogram U-shaped, 3–5 mm across.
Habitat and distribution
.
Pseudosenegalia riograndensis
is known locally in seasonally dry tropical forest at about 1300 m in the Rio Grande valley below Pasorapa, Provence Campero, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Phenology
.
Pseudosenegalia riograndensis
flowers from November through December.
IUCN Red List category
.
Pseudosenegalia riograndensis
is assessed as Data Deficient (DD) at this time (
IUCN, 2001
). This species is apparently rare and is only known from two collections, the type and one other from a restricted region in Bolivia suggesting that the species may at least be Vulnerable (VU), perhaps Endangered (EN).
Specimen examined
. BOLIVIA:
Cochabamba
: Campero, Bosque Termotropical inferior de
Neocardenasia
herzogiana
y
Schinopsis
haenkeana
, 1300 m, 24 Nov. 1999,
C. Antezana 1325
(NY).