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Acacia permixta

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Identification
Acacia permixta Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE ]
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Entry for Acacia permixta [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 permixta [family FABACEAE]
Common names
A. glandulifera sensu Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1908 : 158 (1908) pro parte quoad specim. Burtt Davy 5230, Potgietersrust, non Schinz. A. nebrownii sensu Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1921 : 50 (1921) pro parte quoad specim. Burtt Davy 5230, Potgietersrust, non Burtt Davy sensu stricto.
Information
Many stemmed shrub or a small tree up to 4 m high with slender weakly ascending branches. Bark pale to dark chestnut or reddish-brown; young branchlets sparingly to densely hairy or tomentose with spreading grey to whitish hairs 0,75-2 mm long among which some conspicuous reddish sessile glands are scattered, epidermis sometimes splitting to reveal a reddish-brown inner layer. Stipules spinescent, in pairs, up to 6,5 cm long, straight or often slightly deflexed, slender, whitish, tips often reddish-brown; other prickles absent. Leaves: petiole 0,3-1,7 cm long, sparingly to densely clothed with spreading hairs, adaxial gland absent; rhachis 0-4,2 cm long, sparingly to densely clothed with spreading hairs, with scattered con­spicuous sessile reddish glands, a small raised columnar gland at the junction of the top 1-3 pinnae pairs or absent; pinnae 1—5(7) pairs; rhachillae 0,4-2,8 cm long, with irregularly scattered sessile reddish glands in amongst the spreading pubescence; leaflets 3-10 pairs per pinna, 2,2-7 x 0,9-2(2,9) mm, linear- to obovate-oblong or obovate, e
Habitat
A. permixta is readily distinguished from all of the other species in the complex with glandular glutinous pods by the spreading hairs on the young branchlets, leaf-rhachides and peduncles.
Use
24. Acacia permixta Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1922 : 330 (1922) pro parte excl. var. glabra; Fl. Transv. 2 : 340 (1932); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6 : 155, fig. 3 (1951); Von Breiten-bach, Indig. Trees S. Afr. 2 : 289 (1965); Brenan in F.Z. 3,1 : 91 (1970); Ross in Bothalia 10 : 351 (1971); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2 : 791 (1973). Type: Transvaal, Potgietersrust, Burtt Davy 5230 (PRE, holo.!, K,fragm.!).
Range
Found in south-western Rhodesia and the western Transvaal. Occurs in woodland, thorn scrub and grassland; usually on sandy or coarse gritty soils, often derived from granitic formations, particularly along the edges of the Pietersburg plateau.

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