Entry for ACACIA Burkei Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
ACACIA BurkeiBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], ! Lond. Journ. 5, p. 98
Information
young twigs and petioles patently hispid; prickles in pairs just below the nodes, recurved; petiole unarmed or armed, and with a petiolar gland below the pairs; pinnæ 3–6-jugate; leaflets 5–8-jugate, obliquely oblong or obovate, obtuse or mucronulate, the younger villous at margin; spikes tufted, loose, peduncled, rather longer than the leaf; legume? Zey! 571. Bark dark ashey-brown, rugged. Leaflets drying pale, 4 lines long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide, the uppermost largest and obovate. Spikes 2–3 inches long. Legume not seen; supposed to be membranous by Bentham.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Magaliesberg, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.)
