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Acacia rogersii

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Holotype of Acacia rogersii Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE]
Holotype of Acacia rogersii Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE]
Type of Acacia rogersii Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Acacia rogersii Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Acacia nebrownii Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J.H.Ross, 1972
Related name
  • Acacia rogersii
  • Acacia nebrownii

Flora

Entry for Acacia nebrownii Burtt Davy [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Acacia nebrownii Burtt Davy [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 1921: 50 (1921). — Bak. f., Legum. Trop. Afr. 3: 851 (1930). — O. B. Mill., B.C.L.: 20 (1948); in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 23 (1952). — Verdoorn in Bothalia, 6: 156, fig. 4 (1951). — Boughey in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 30: 158 (1964). TAB. 15 fig. 9. Syntypes; Botswana, Kwebe Hills, Mrs. E. J. Lugard 16 (K); also from the Transvaal, Swaziland and SW. Africa.
Acacia rogersii Burtt Davy [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 1922: 331 (1922); F.P.F.T. 2: 342 (1932). — Bak. f., loc. cit. — O. B. Mill., B.C.L.: 21 (1948). Type from the Transvaal.
Information
Shrub 1-5 m. high (? higher or even a tree to 7 m.); young branchlets with numerous dark sessile pustular glands, otherwise glabrous. Stipules spinescent, up to 6 cm. long, slender, whitish, sometimes slightly arcuate and deflexed; “ant-galls” and other prickles absent. Leaves with a shortly columnar or narrowly cup-shaped gland at the junction of the pinna-pair, or at the upper pair of two; pinnae 1(2) pairs; leaflets 3-5 pairs, 2-8 x 1-5 mm., eglandular or with some small pale inconspicuous glands on the margin and sometimes the surface, mostly very shortly mucronate at the apex; margin otherwise glabrous, entire; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Flowers golden-yellow, in axillary pedunculate heads 8-12 mm. in diam. produced along last season’s shoots; involucel basal or up to 1/4-way up the peduncle, 1-2 mm. long. Calyx 1·25-2 mm. long, glabrous. Corolla 2·5 mm. long, glabrous outside. Pods dehiscent, 2-4·7 x 0·9-1·1 cm., falcate to slightly falcate, not or scarcely constricted between the seeds, with numerous conspicuous dark sessile pustular glands scattered over the surface, otherwise glabrous. Seeds olive to olive-brown, 8-10 x 6-7 mm., elliptic, compressed; areole 4-6 x 3-3·5 mm.
Habitat
Forming thickets in grassland in dry areas, or with Colophospermum mopane, Terminalia prunioides: Acacia mellifera subsp. detinens, etc.
Altitude range
550–910 m.
910
550
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Gwanda Distr., Beitbridge, Shashi Camp, fl. 28.viii.1958, West 3710 (K).Botswana SW Takatshwane Pan, fl. 20.ii.1960, Wild 5086 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matobo Distr., near Tuli R. close to junction with Shashi R., fl. 31.viii.1958, Darbyshire 2888 (SRGH).Botswana N Kwebe Hills, fl. & fr. viii.1897-ii.1898, Mrs. E. J. Lugard 16 (K).
Distribution (external)
south-western Africa
Transvaal North of the Soutpansberg

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