Entry for ACACIA horrida Willd. [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 horridaWilld. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Sp. 4, 1082;—Benth. l. c. p. 502.
ACACIA CapensisBurch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], E. & Z. 1695.
Information
glabrous; stipular spines short or long (on the older twigs longest), straight, ivory-white; twigs, peduncles, and petioles angular; pinnæ 2–5-jugate, with small glands; leaflets 5–12-jugate, oblong-linear, obtuse or subacute; peduncles bracteate in the middle, the upper ones fasciculate-racemose; petals with revolute points; legume long, linear, flat, falcate, glabrous, coriaceous. This is the common Doorn-boom, or Karro-doorn, of the colonists. Spines 1/2 inch to 2–3 inches long, very sharp. Leaflets 3–4 lines long, 1–1 1/2 wide. Legume 4 inches long, 3 lines wide, with straight or irregularly sinuous margins.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common throughout the Colony. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.)
