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Acacia swazica

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Paratype of Acacia swazica Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE]
Acacia swazica Burtt Davy [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Type of Acacia swazica Burtt Davy [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Holotype of Acacia swazica Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE]
Acacia swazica Burtt Davy
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Identification
Acacia swazica Burtt Davy [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia swazica

Flora

Entry for Acacia swazica [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 swazica [family FABACEAE]
Common names
A. glandulifera sensu Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1908 :158 (1908) pro parte quoad specim. Burtt Davy 3045, prope Bremersdorp, Swaziland; Henkel, Woody PI. Natal 228 (1934), non Schinz sensu stricto. A. nebrownii sensu Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1921 : 50 (1921) pro parte quoad Burtt Davy 3045, prope Bremersdorp, Swaziland, non Burtt Davy sensu stricto.
Information
Slender shrub, often several stemmed, or small slender tree with short ascending branches up to 3 m high. Bark grey- to yellowish- or reddish-brown, sometimes flaking to reveal a yellowish inner layer; young branchlets grey- or reddish-brown to purplish, sometimes flaking minutely, glabrous except for scattered conspicuous reddish sessile pustular glands, often gluti­nous. Stipules spinescent, in pairs, 0,6-7,4 cm long, straight or slightly deflexed, slender, whitish, glabrous; other prickles absent. Leaves: petiole 0,3-1,9 cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, adaxial gland absent; rhachis 0-1,8(4,4) cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, often with a small sessile to shortly stipitate gland at the junction of each pinna pair, otherwise with small scattered glands; pinnae 1-3(5) pairs; rhachillae 0,6-2,9 cm long, glabrous, usually with small scattered glands; leaflets 3-7(9) pairs per pinna, (2)4-9(13) X (1)1,5-5,1 mm, lanceolate to obovate-oblong or broadly obovate, glabrous, margins entire, eglandular or with few very inconspicuous glands towards the apex, lateral nerves ± spinulose-mu
Habitat
A. swazica may sometimes be confused with A. exuvialis. However, A. swazica differs from A. exuvialis, and from all of the other species in the complex with glandular glutinous pods, by the conspicuous venation on the lower leaflet surfaces.
Use
22. Acacia swazica Burn Davy in Kew Bull. 1922 : 332 (1922); Fl. Transv. 2 : 342 (1932); Hutch., Botanist in S. Afr. 365, 370 (1946); Verdoorn in Bothalia 6 : 156, fig. 6 (1951); Codd, Trees and Shrubs Kruger Nat. Park 51 (1951); Von Breitenbach, Indig. Trees S. Afr. 2 : 290 (1965); Brenan in F.Z. 3,1 : 92 (1970); Ross, Acacia Spp. Natal 41, fig. 2/18 (1971); in Bothalia 10 : 351 (1971); Fl. Natal 193 (1973); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2 : 793 (1973). Type: Swaziland, near Manzini [Bremersdorp], Burn Davy 3045 (PRE, holo.!, K, fragm.!; BM, iso.!).
Range
Found in southern Mozambique, the eastern Transvaal, Swaziland and the north-western corner of Tongaland in the vicinity of Ndumu. Occurs in dry bushveld and mixed scrub, usually on boulder strewn slopes or in rocky situations.

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