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Acacia hebecladoides

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Name

Identification
Acacia subtomentosa De Wild. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Acacia hebecladoides Harms [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Boutique R., 1952 Acacia gerrardii Benth. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Acacia hebecladoides
  • Acacia subtomentosa
  • Acacia gerrardii
  • Acacia latisiliqua
  • Acacia unrecorded
Common name
  • tiluure (J&D) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bákár káyaà = black thorn (MM; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kandele (EWF) (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Acacia hebecladoides Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Acacia hebecladoides Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 36: 208 (1905); Bak. f. l.c. 3: 846; Mildbr. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 65: 20; Aubrév. l.c. 276, t. 51, 11.
Information
Tree, to 40 ft. high, with flat-topped crown, inlow-lying savannah sites; flowers white, sweet-scented, with numerous flower-heads in each axil.
Habitat
low-lying savannah sites
Distribution
N. Nig. Chad region (fr. Dec.) Foster 86! Yola (fr. Sept.) Daggash FHI 13364! Namtari, Adamawa (May) Rosevear FHI 26602!
Distribution (external)
French Cameroons
Belgian Congo
Uganda
A.–E. Sudan
Kenya
Tanganyika
N. and S. Rhodesia

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