Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Common names
A. sericocephala Benth. in Hook., Lond. J. Bot. 3 : 91 (1844); Milne-Redhead in Kew Bull. 1934 : 301 (1934); Brenan, Checklist Tang. Terr. 341 (1949); Pardy in Rhod. Agric. J. 49 : 14 (1952). Types as above. A. amara sensu Oliv. in F.T.A. 2 : 356 (1871); Bak.f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 865 (1930); Gilbert & Boutique in F.C.B. 3 : 172 (1952). A. struthiophylla Milne-Redhead in Kew Bull. 1933 : 144 (1933); O. B. Miller in J. S.Afr. Bot. 18 : 27 (1952) ("struthio-folia"). Type: Zambia, Mazabuka, Milne-Redhead 1207 (K, nolo.!, PRE!). Acacia sericocephala Fenzl in Flora 27 : 312 (1844), nomen nudum. Inga sericocephala A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1 : 236 (1847). Types as for Albizia sericocephala.
Habitat
A. amara subsp. sericocephala may be readily distinguished from A. harveyi by its longer leaves, more numerous pinnae and leaflet pairs, and by the apex of the leaflets not being acute and distinctly falcate. Subsp. sericocephala differs from A. brevifolia in the longer leaves, more numerous pinnae and leaflet pairs, and in the dense spreading golden indumentum on the young branchlets.
Use
subsp. sericocephala (Benth.) Brenan in Kew Bull. 10 : 190 (1955); Palgrave, Trees Cent. Afr. 258 (1956); Codd in Bothalia 7 : 70 (1958); Brenan in F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos. : 152 (1959); F. White, For. Fl. N. Rhod. 89, fig. 16H (1962); Von Breitenbach, Indig. Trees S. Afr. 2 : 255 (1965); Brenan in F.Z. 3, 1 : 125, t.23A (1970); Van Wyk, Trees Kruger Nat. Park 1 : 108 (1972); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2 : 715 (1973). Syntypes: Sudan, Sennar, Kotschy 244 (K!; P!) & Kordofan, Milbes, Kotschy 294 (BM!; E!; K!; OXF!; P!; W!); Ethiopia, Gapdia, Schimper 818 (BM!; K!; OXF!; P!) & Dscheladscheranne [Jelajeranne], Schimper 883 (BM!; K!; OXF!; P!).
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