Compilation
Acacia abyssinica

44 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Acacia abyssinica Hochst. ex Benth. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia abyssinica

Flora

Entry for Acacia abyssinica Hochst. ex Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Acacia abyssinica Hochst. ex Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. 5: 97 (1846). — Oliv., F.T.A. 2: 347 (1871). — Bak. f., Legum. Trop. Afr. 3: 839 (1930). — Gilbert & Boutique, F.C.B. 3: 167 (1952). — Brenan in Kew Bull 12: 81 (1957); F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos: 112 (1959). Type from Ethiopia.
Information
Conspicuously flat-crowned tree 6-15(20) m. high; bark rough and fissured, brown to nearly black; epidermis not peeling on the twigs; bark on young trees papery; indumentum of branchlets variable, pubescent to shortly villous, grey or somewhat yellowish. Stipules spinescent, other prickles absent; spines variable, absent, short or up to 7.2 cm. long, straight, ashen when elongate, never inflated. Leaves: petiole 2-5 mm. long; pinnae of well-developed leaves of mature shoots 15-51 pairs (reduced leaves with fewer pairs also present); leaflets up to 4 x 0.75 mm. Flowers in heads; stamens white; calyx and corolla red (? always). Corolla glabrous or inconspicuously puberulous on the lobes outside. Pods 5-13 x 1.2-2.1 (2.8) cm., subcoriaceous, straight or slightly curved, grey or brown, longitudinally veined, ± glandular and sometimes puberulous, narrowed at the base and sometimes at the top. Seeds ± oblique in the pod, olive-brown, 7-10 x 4-6 mm., smooth, elliptic, compressed, areole 6-7 x 2.5-4 mm.
Notes
Typical subsp. abyssinica, with pinnae 1?5-2?5 cm. long and leaflets 2-4 x 0?5-0?75 mm., is confined to Ethiopia.

Related Materials