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Acacia kraussiana

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Name

Identification
Acacia kraussiana Meisn. ex Benth. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for ACACIA Kraussiana Meisn. [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 Kraussiana Meisn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], ! Lond. Journ. 2, p. 103;—Bth.! l. c. p. 505.
Information
scandent; prickles scattered, very small, numerous; twigs, petioles, and peduncles minutely downy or glabrate; petioles armed; pinnæ 3–5-jugate, with convex glands; leaflets 6–12-pair, obliquely oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, glabrous, shining above; heads globose, the peduncles racemoso-paniculate; ovary stipitate, pubescent; legume broadly-linear, membranous, flat, glabrous, straight, several-seeded, stipitate. A slender shrub, with flexuous or twining branches. Petioles mostly aculeate. Leaflets 4–5 lines long, 2 lines wide, paler beneath. Inflorescence disposed in terminal panicles. Legumes 3–4 inches long, the margin slightly sinuous. Prickles much smaller and leaflets larger than in A. pennata.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, T. Williamson! Krauss! Gueinzius! (Herb. Hk., D.)

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