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ACACIA arabica Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 arabica Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], sp. 4, 1085;—Benth. L. J. 1, 500. E. Mey. Comm. p. 168.
Information
tomentoso-pubescent; stipular-spines long or short, subulate or robust, at length white, straight, or subrecurved; pinnæ 4–8-jugate, with scutelliform glands and often a large petiolar gland; leaflets 10–20-jugate, oblong-linear, obtuse, green, glabrous or ciliate; peduncles axillary, bracteate in the middle; heads globose; legume flat, linear, moniliform, tomentose, at length glabrescent, coriaceous, pulpy within. The Natal specimens belong to Bentham's var. β. Kraussiana, and have generally long spines, and a deeply crenate, but scarcely moniliform, tomentose pod. The peduncles, besides the terminal head, have sometimes flowers at the medial bracts.
Range
A native of North Africa and Arabia, producing the gum-arabic of commerce.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.)

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 arabica Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], sp. 4, 1085;—Benth. L. J. 1, 500. E. Mey. Comm. p. 168.
Information
tomentoso-pubescent; stipular-spines long or short, subulate or robust, at length white, straight, or subrecurved; pinnæ 4–8-jugate, with scutelliform glands and often a large petiolar gland; leaflets 10–20-jugate, oblong-linear, obtuse, green, glabrous or ciliate; peduncles axillary, bracteate in the middle; heads globose; legume flat, linear, moniliform, tomentose, at length glabrescent, coriaceous, pulpy within. The Natal specimens belong to Bentham's var. β. Kraussiana, and have generally long spines, and a deeply crenate, but scarcely moniliform, tomentose pod. The peduncles, besides the terminal head, have sometimes flowers at the medial bracts.
Range
A native of North Africa and Arabia, producing the gum-arabic of commerce.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.)

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 arabica Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], sp. 4, 1085;—Benth. L. J. 1, 500. E. Mey. Comm. p. 168.
Information
tomentoso-pubescent; stipular-spines long or short, subulate or robust, at length white, straight, or subrecurved; pinnæ 4–8-jugate, with scutelliform glands and often a large petiolar gland; leaflets 10–20-jugate, oblong-linear, obtuse, green, glabrous or ciliate; peduncles axillary, bracteate in the middle; heads globose; legume flat, linear, moniliform, tomentose, at length glabrescent, coriaceous, pulpy within. The Natal specimens belong to Bentham's var. β. Kraussiana, and have generally long spines, and a deeply crenate, but scarcely moniliform, tomentose pod. The peduncles, besides the terminal head, have sometimes flowers at the medial bracts.
Range
A native of North Africa and Arabia, producing the gum-arabic of commerce.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.)
ACACIA arabica Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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