Acacia cultriformisA.Cunn ex G.Don [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bruce Roger Maslin, Acacia scapuliformisA.Cunn ex G.Don [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Bruce Roger Maslin,
Related name
Acacia cultriformis
Acacia trapezoidea
Acacia scapuliformis
Flora
Entry for Acacia cultriformis [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 cultriformis [family FABACEAE]
Information
Unarmed shrub or small tree; young branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves phyl-lodic, apparently simple, 0,8-3 x 0,6-1,1 cm, obliquely obovate-lanceolate to ovate-triangular, glaucous, glabrous, with a single main longitudinal nerve and finely penni-nerved, usually with 1 marginal gland, someÂtimes on a prominent angle. Flowers in small round heads, arranged in axillary racemes which are longer than the phyllodes and are often ± aggregated terminally. Pods 5-9 x 0,5-0,7 cm, linear-oblong, glabrous, longitudinally dehiscent.
Habitat
A. cultriformis differs from A. podalyriifolia in being glabrous and in having narrower pods.
Use
62. Acacia cultriformis A. Cunn. ex G. Don, Gen. Syst. 2 : 406 (1832); Benth. in Fl. Austral. 2 : 375 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 474 (1875); Brenan in F.Z. 3,1 : 113 (1970); Ross in Bothalia 11 : 469 (1975). Type from New South Wales, Australia.
