Entry for ACACIA erioloba E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
ACACIA eriolobaE. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Comm. p. 171;—Benth. in Lond. Journ. 1, p. 496.
Information
stipular-spines straight; leaves glabrous, pallid; pinnæ trijugate, with glands at each pair; leaflets 8–10-jugate, linear-oblong, obtuse; legume woody, indehiscent, semilunate, tumid, tapering at each end, with a whitish, rough tomentum, spongy within. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Namaqualand, Schmeling. (Probably A. Giraffæ). “ Kameeldoorn ” of the colonists.
