Acacia elata [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 elata [family FABACEAE]
Common names
A. terminate sensu Court in Handb. PI. Victoria 2 : 242 (1972).
Information
Unarmed tree. Leaves bipinnate, large, 30-40 cm long; pinnae 3-5 pairs; leaflets 8-15 pairs per pinna, mostly 2-6 x 0,4-1 cm, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, often somewhat falcate, usually finely pubescent at least on the lower surface. Flowers pale yellow, in round heads, arranged in axillary racemes or panicles. Pods ± 9-15 x 0,9-1,3 cm, linear-oblong, straight or curved, the margins irregularly constricted between the seeds, compressed, dehiscing along both margins.
Habitat
A. elata is easily distinguished from all of the other species with bipinnate leaves by its large leaflets.
Use
60. Acacia elata A. Cunn. ex Benth. in Hook., Lond. J. Bot. 1 : 383 (1842), non A. elata Wallich, Cat. 5233 (1832) nomen nudum, non A. elata R. Gran.; Benth. in EL Austral. 2 : 413 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 495 (1875); Summerh. in Bot. Mag. 154 : t.9214 (1930); Brenan in F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos. : 50 (1959); in F.Z. 3,1 : 111 (1970); Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Fl. Sydney Region 272 (1972); Ross in Bothalia 11 : <69 (1975). Type from New South Wales, Australia.
Range
Recorded from Krugersdorp in the Transvaal, Gerstner 6671, and Stellenbosch in the Cape, Taylor 7968, but much more widely cultivated.
Acacia elata [family FABACEAE]
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