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Acacia amythethophylla

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Name

Identification
Acacia amythethophylla Steud. ex A.Rich. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia amythethophylla
Common name
  • gaba cara the name of a yellow-breasted thrush (auctt.) gaba tora (ZOG) gwanno (auctt.) kadeji (EWF) kwakwarra (EWF) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for ACACIA amythethophylla Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
ACACIA amythethophylla Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 245. Schweinf. Acacien-arten d. Nilgebiets, 360.
Information
Tree of medium size; extremities puberulous. Stipular spines minute or stipules near the base of the shoots scarcely spinescent. Leaves 1/2–1 ft. long, rachis puberulous or glabrate “with a gland near the base”; pinnæ in 12–30 pairs; leaflets 30–50-jugate, linear-oblong, obliquely pointed, glabrous, 2–2 1/2 lines long. Peduncles 1/2–1 in. long, involucellate near the middle, fascicled 3–5 in each node along a leafless terminal raceme 1/2– 3/4 ft. in length. Flowers capitate. Calyx minute, denticulate. Petals connate, 3–4 times exceeding the calyx. Legume (according to Dr. Schweinfurth) linear-oblong, flat, 4–6 in. long, 7–8 lines broad, valves coriaceous, shining, obsoletely veined. Seeds 8–12.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper!
Notes
I have only seen flowering specimens. Mr. Bentham reduces this plant to A. xiphocarpa, Hochst. (Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846, 96), but Dr. Schweinfurth, who describes the fruit, keeps it apart. I should probably have followed Mr. Bentham were it not on account of the racemose leafless inflorescence of A. amythethophylla .

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