ACACIA Farnesiana Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
ACACIA Farnesiana Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1842, 494.
Information
Small tree or shrub; extremities glabrous or obsoletely pubescent, slightly zigzag from node to node. Stipular spines slender, straight. Pinnæ in about 6 (4–8) pairs; rachis pubescent or glabrate, usually with a minute, sessile gland near the base; leaflets in 12–20 pairs, linear-oblong, obtuse or broadly acute, glabrous or glabrate, 2–3 lines long. Peduncles 1–3 from each axil, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, slender, pubescent or glabrate; bracts immediately under the globose head. Calyx denticulate, glabrous. Petals united nearly throughout, twice as long as calyx. Legume turgid, cylindrical, or subfusiform, straight or curved, finely obliquely striate, glabrous, indehiscent or tardily opening, 2–3 in. long. Seeds crowded, irregularly biseriate.
Notes
Probably of American origin, and frequently cultivated throughout the Tropics for the sake of the perfume afforded by its flowers, but not indigenous in Tropical Africa unless in Angola (Loanda and Golungo Alto), where Dr. Welwitsch describes it as at least subspontaneous.
ACACIA Farnesiana Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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