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Acacia spinosa

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Identification
Isotype of Acacia spinosa E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE ] Dichrostachys cinerea unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Acacia senegal
  • Acacia spinosa
  • Dichrostachys cinerea

Flora

Entry for Acacia senegal var. rostrata Brenan [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 senegal var. rostrata Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 8: 99 (1953). — Young in Candollea, 15: 96 (1955). — Boughey in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 30: 158 (1964). — J. Ross in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 42: 233 (1968). Type from Transvaal.
Acacia spinosa Marl. & Engl. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 10: 20 (1888) non E. Mey. (1836). — O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 24 (1952). Type from SW. Africa.
Acacia rostrata Sim [family LEGUMINOSAE], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 55, t. 37 (1909) non Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. (1806). — Bak. f., Legum. Trop. Afr. 3: 827 (1930). Type: Mozambique, Maputo, Sim 6263 (not found).
Acacia senegal var. [family LEGUMINOSAE], — Codd, Trees & Shrubs Kruger Nat. Park: 51 (1951).
Acacia senegal [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Wild, S. Rhod. Bot. Dict.: 49 (1953).
Information
Either a shrub branching at or close to the base or a small tree with a single central stem, 1-4(6) m. high; crown dense, flattened; bark normally with a flaking papery peel, creamy-yellow to yellow-green or grey-brown. Inflorescence-axis always pubescent. Pods 2-31/2 times as long as wide, very rarely more, 2·3-8·5 x 1·6-2·9 cm., usually ± rostrate or acuminate at the apex.
Habitat
In woodland, wooded grassland and bushland, penetrating Rhodesia along the alluvium of river-valleys
Altitude range
near sea-level–c. 600 m.
600
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Distribution
Zimbabwe S Lower Sabi, Birchenough Bridge, fr. 30.i.1948, Wild 2458 (K; SRGH); Shashi-Limpopo confluence, fr. 22.iii.1959, Drummond 5936 (K; SRGH).Botswana N N. of Lake Dow, 40 km. ESE. of Rakops, fr. 22.iii.1965, Wild & Drummond 7223 (SRGH).Mozambique M Sábiè, Moamba, 5 km. from Sábiè, fr. 7.vi.1948, Torre 7968 (K; LISC).Mozambique GI Guijá, Caniçado, Chamusca, fr. 19.vi.1947, Pedrógão 352 (COI; K; LMJ; PRE).Botswana SE Dikhatlon Ranch, fr. 14.iv.1931, Pole Evans 3189 (39) (K; PRE).Mozambique N Monte Icoculo, st. 31.viii.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 4997 (LMJ).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (the Transvaal and Natal)
Swaziland
south-western Africa
Notes
It is possible that this variety has a wider range than here given. A few specimens from Kenya and Somalia included in F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 93 (1959) under the rather heterogeneous concept of var. kerensis Schweinf. have pods similar to those of var. rostrata. The situation needs clarifying in eastern and north-eastern tropical Africa.

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