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Acacia adunca

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Name

Identification
Acacia adunca A.Cunn & G.Don [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bruce Roger Maslin,
Related name
  • Acacia accola
  • Acacia flocktoniae
  • Acacia hamiltoniana
  • Acacia adunca
  • Acacia forsythii
  • Acacia linearifolia
  • Acacia crassiuscula

Flora

Entry for Acacia adunca [family FABACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Acacia adunca [family FABACEAE]
Common names
A. accola Maiden & Betche in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 31(4) : 734 (1907). Syntypes from Australia.
Information
Unarmed small tree; young branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves phyllodic, apparently simple, 5-12 cm long, 1,5-3 mm wide (in our area), linear, with a single main longitudinal nerve, usually with an oblique slightly recurved point apically, a fairly conspicuous marginal gland situated a short distance above the base. Flowers in small round heads, arranged in short axillary racemes which are mostly aggregated ter­minally. Pods reddish-brown when mature, 7-10 X 0,8-1 cm, oblong, margins often irregularly constricted, valves thin, umbonate over the seeds, longitudinally dehiscent.
Use
65. Acacia adunca A. Cunn. ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. 2 : 406 (1832); Maiden, For. Fl. New South Wales 5, part 46 : 113-118, t.173 (1911); Ross in Bothalia 11 : 469 (1975). Type: Australia, New South Wales, Hunters River, Cunningham 79/1827 (K, holo.!).
Range
Recorded from the Groot Drakenstein in the Cape Province, Voorligtingsbeampte C4.

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