Senegalia pennata(L.) Maslin

WFO wfo-0001335076 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Senegalia pennata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2008-09-27 / obs. 120173367
Senegalia pennata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117574914
Senegalia pennata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120173359
Senegalia pennata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117574916
Senegalia pennata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120173362
Senegalia pennata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117574917
Senegalia pennata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120173365

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Senegalia pennata is native: Seychelles, China South-Central, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka China South-CentralAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaMyanmarNepalSri Lanka SeychellesAndaman Is.
Native distribution of Senegalia pennata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Seychelles SEY AFRICA
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia amblycarpa Graham ex Wall.
  • Acacia canescens (Graham ex Kurz) Gamble
  • Acacia canescens var. albida Haines
  • Acacia canescens var. fulva Haines
  • Acacia concinna Wall.
  • Acacia donaldi Haines
  • Acacia grahamii Vajr.
  • Acacia horrida Span.
  • Acacia pennata (L.) Willd.
  • Acacia pennata var. canescens Graham ex Kurz
  • Acacia pennata var. heyneana Benth.
  • Acacia pinnata Dalzell & A.Gibson
  • Acacia prensans Lowe
  • Acacia pterophylla Hoffmanns.
  • Inga tenerrima Jungh. ex Benth.
  • Mimosa ferruginea Rottler
  • Mimosa megalodena Poir.
  • Mimosa pennata L.
  • Senegalia donaldi (Haines) Ragup., Seigler, Ebinger & Maslin
  • Senegalia pennata var. canescens (Graham ex Kurz) Sanjappa
  • Senegalia pennata var. heyneana (Benth.) Sanjappa
  • Sericandra pennata (L.) Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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