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Willard's Acacia

Mariosousa heterophylla

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) raul_pardo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.

Mexico	145
Sonora	141
Sinaloa	4

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
Family	Legumes · Fabaceae
Genus	Mariosousa

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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