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Acacia fasciculata

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Name

Identification
Acacia fasciculata Guill. & Perr. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Acacia tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Acacia fasciculata
  • Mimosa benthamii
  • Acacia tortilis

Flora

Entry for ACACIA tortilis Hayne [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 tortilis Hayne [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Arzneigewächse, ix. 31; Schweinf. Acacien-arten d. Nilgebiets, 327.
ACACIA fasciculata Guill. et Perr. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Fl. Seneg. i. 252; Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1842, 502.
ACACIA Raddiana Savi [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Acacie Egiziane, i. (fide Schweinfurth).
Information
A tree; wholly glabrous, the extremities brown or reddish-brown. Stipular spines on the flowering branches very short, slightly recurved, “on barren branches 1 in. long, straight.” Pinnæ in 2–5 pairs, glands of the rachis when present very minute; leaflets in 8–12 pairs, linear-oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2–3 1/2 lines long. Peduncles 1–5 from each axil, slender, bearing a small involucel near or a little below the middle. Flowers capitate. Calyx-teeth short. Petals twice as long as calyx. Legume flat, coriaceous, narrow-linear, spirally twisted, rather strongly longitudinally nerved, glabrous, 3–6 in. long, 2 1/2–3 lines broad.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Dr. Schweinfurth.Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot!
Distribution (external)
Egypt
Arabia

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