title: Senegalia hayesii
text: # Senegalia hayesii
  
  Senegalia hayesii is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panamá, and Venezuela.
  
  ## Description
  
  Senegalia hayesii is a woody, clambering vine. The branches are a densely covered in very short soft hairs and have many small prickles. The bipinnate leaves are 30 to 40 cm. long, with 8 to 10 pairs of pinnae, each having 10-20 pairs of final leaflets. the midvein of the leaves is excentric. The flowers occur in spikes which are 10–12 mm long, and have calyces 2 mm long, with corollas 4 mm long.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  It was first described by George Bentham in 1875 as Acacia hayesii, from a specimen collected in Panama by S. Hayes, and was redescribed in 1928 by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose as Senegalia hayesii.
  
  