Entry for ACACIA bullockii Brenan var. induta [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
ACACIA bullockii Brenan var. induta [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in K.B. 1957: 78 (1957). Type: Tanganyika, Kigoma District, C. H. N. Jackson 117! (K, holo.!, BM, iso.!)
Acacia sp. nov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (in Kigoma) — B. D. Burtt in Journ. Ecol. 30: 143 (1942)
Notes
The unusual habit of this species is well shown by a fine series of photographs of it taken by Mr. A. A. Bullock. It may be separable by this from A. pseudofistula, but insufficient is known of the habit of its other close relative, A. erythrophloea. A. bullockii also differs in its usually exceptionally large leaves (not clearly shown however, by var. induta, see below), longer leaflets, large flowers on stouter peduncles and longer pods (normally 7–10 as against 3–6 cm.). The status of var. induta is doubtful. Jackson 117 shows a greater development of indumentum than in var. bullockii. The leaves are also in general smaller, with usually fewer than 15 pairs of pinnae, but are borne, however, on abnormal-looking shoots, evidently the results of very severe burning, and these differences may thus be more apparent than real. More material and more field observations are wanted both of var. induta and var. bullockii.
