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Acacia ferox

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Identification
Acacia ferox M.Martens & Galeotti [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by John E. Ebinger, 1966
Related name
  • Acacia detinens
  • Acacia farnesiana
  • Acacia ferox
  • Acacia mellifera
  • Acacia burkei

Flora

Entry for ACACIA ferox 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 ferox Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], ! Lond. Journ. 5, p. 97
Information
young twigs and petioles patently hispidulous; prickles in pairs or threes just below the nodes, recurved; petiole aculeate; glands minute; pinnæ 4–6-jugate; leaflets 3–6-jugate, obliquely obovate oblong, very obtuse; heads subglobose, shortly pedunculate; legume oblong or broadly-linear, acute, flat, membranous, glabrous, few-seeded. Zey! 570. Bark dark ashen-grey, that of the older twigs rugose. Leaflets pale, 4 lines long, 1 1/2 wide. Legume 2 1/2–3 inches long, nearly an inch wide, 2–3-seeded.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Magaliesberg, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.)

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