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Acacia van-meelii

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Name

Identification
Acacia goetzei Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Acacia van-meelii Gilbert & Boutique [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia goetzei
  • Acacia van-meelii

Flora

Entry for ACACIA goetzei Brenan subsp. microphylla [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
ACACIA goetzei Brenan subsp. microphylla [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in K.B. 1956: 204 (1956). Type: Nyasaland, Mombera District, Njakwa to Fort Hill, Greenway 6393 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
ACACIA ulugurensis [Taub. ex] Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in E.J. 28: 396 (1900); L.T.A.: 831 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 332 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Uluguru foothills near Tununguo, Stuhlmann 8947 (B, holo. †)
ACACIA kinionge De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Pl. Bequaert. 3: 60 (1925); Gilb. & Bout. in F.C.B. 3: 153 (1952). Type: Belgian Congo, Bas-Katanga, Kabalo, Delevoy 118 (BR, holo.)
ACACIA joachimii Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in N.B.G.B. 12: 507 (1935); T.T.C.L.:331 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Lindi District, Lake Lutamba, Schlieben 5636 (B, holo. †, BR, P, iso!)
ACACIA van-meelii Gilb. & Bout. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in B.J.B.B. 22: 177 (1952) & in F.C.B. 2: 149 (1952). Types: Belgian Congo, Parc Nat. Upemba, R. Kilwezi, Van Meel in de Witte 4103 (BR, holo.!); Tanganyika, Lindi District, Lake Lutamba, Schlieben 5636a (BR, P, co.!)
Information
Leaflets (of leaves on mature flowering shoots) nearly all narrower than 3 mm. (range 0.75–3 mm.), usually (except terminal pairs) not wider towards apex, and thus oblong or linear-oblong, often in more numerous (8–23) pairs than in subsp. goetzei; rhachis of leaf frequently (by no means always) ± prickly and with glands between the topmost 1–3 (–5) pairs of pinnae.
Range
DISTR. K1; T1, 3, 4, 6, 8
Altitude range
170–1520 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 1 Apr. 1952, Gillett 12668!TANGANYIKA Handeni District Kangata, Nov. 1949, Semsei in F.H. 2925!;TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Melela, 12 Jan. 1934, Michelmore 923!;TANGANYIKA Masasi District flood-plain of R. Bangala, 16 Dec. 1955, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 7678!
Distribution (external)
; Belgian Congo
Ethiopia
Portuguese East Africa
Nyasaland,
Northern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
Notes
Like subsp. goetzei, this is variable, although less so in our area than in other parts of its range. The solitary Kenya specimen is from the northern frontier, but it seems hard to believe that it is really absent from the rest of the territory; the specimen however is somewhat aberrant, having few spines (as in A. persiciflora) , and rather dense indumentum. It is matched by Gillett 14764 from southern Ethiopia, and these may later prove to be worth distinguishing taxonomically. A. mandunduënsis Engl. was quoted in T.T.C.L.: 338 (1930) as a nomen nudum of doubtful identity. A specimen in E. A. H., Busse 545, without locality, is annotated as “ Acacia mandandensis Harms n. sp.” The two spellings of the epithet are probably mere variants, and Busse 545 is certainly A. goetzei subsp. microphylla.

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