''Lysiloma divaricatum'' is a flowering tree native to Mexico and Central America. Common names include mauto, quitaz, and tepemesquite in Mexico, quebracho in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, and quebracho negro, tepemisque, and yaje in El Salvador.
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Description
''Lysiloma divaricatum'' is typically a small to medium-sized tree, densely branched, with an open spreading crown up to 15 meters high.[
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Distribution and habitat
''Lysiloma divaricatum'' ranges from northern Mexico
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to Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...
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It is found in tropical and subtropical dry deciduous forest, mixed pine forest, and occasionally in desert scrub with cactus. It ranges from sea level up to 1100 meters elevation, and occasionally up to 1750 meters. It is often found on slopes growing on volcanic and sandy clay soils.][
In Baja California it is commonly associated with '' Caesalpinia pannosa''. Elsewhere it is often found with other dry forest species like '' Chloroleucon mangense, Leucaena macrophylla'' and '' Senna mollissima'', along with species of '']Acacia
''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Austral ...
, Parkinsonia
''Parkinsonia'' , also ''Cercidium'' , is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 12 species that are native to semi-desert regions of Africa and the Americas. The name of the genus honors Kingdom of England, ...
, Calycophyllum, Mimosa
''Mimosa'' is a genus of about 600 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae. Species are native to the Americas, from North Dakota to northern Argentina, and to eastern Africa (Tanzania, Mozambique, and ...
, Myrospermum'', and Burseraceae
The Burseraceae are a moderate-sized family of 17-19 genera and about 540 species of woody flowering plants. The actual numbers given in taxonomic sources differ according to taxonomic revision at the time of writing. The Burseraceae are also ...
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Gallery
File:Lysiloma divaricatum pods (27037790014).jpg, Seed pods and flowers
File:Lysiloma divaricatum 0zz.jpg, trunk
Conservation
The population is considered stable, and the species is assessed as Least Concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been evaluated and categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wil ...
due to its wide distribution, large population, and absence of major threats.[
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References
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divaricatum
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Central America
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts