Name
Senegalia angustifolia (Lam.) Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 113. 1928;
Synonymy and types
Mimosa angustifolia Lam., Encycl. 1: 12. 1783, non Jacq. (1798). - TYPE: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. [holotype: B from Dominican Republic, probably Barahona (Howard, 1988)]. NOTE: The name Acacia angustifolia (Jacq.) H. L. Wendland (1820), which is based on Mimosa angustissima Jacq. (1798), is a synonym of Acacia suaveolens (Sm.) Willd., a phyllodinous acacia species from Australia (Maslin 2001).
Acacia skleroxyla Tussac, Fl. Antill. 1: 146. (pl. 21). 1808. - TYPE: Antilles. Santo Domingo [holotype: pl. 21 from Tussac (1808)]. NOTE: Barneby and Zanoni (1989) observed that the correct orthography is skleroxyla as used by Tussac (1808), not scleroxyla.
Mimosa tenuifolia Descourtilz, Fl. med. Antilles 2: 105. (t. 93). 1822, nom. illeg. Mimosa tenuifolia Linnaeus (1753) is the basionym of Senegalia tenuifolia (see below).