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Albizia procera [family FABACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Albizia procera [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Mimosa procera Roxb., PI. Corom. 2 : 12, t.121 (1799); Fl. Ind. 2 : 548 (1832). Type as above. Acacia procera (Roxb.) Willd., Sp. PI. 4 : 1063 (1806); DC, Prodr. 2 : 466 (1825); Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. 1 : 275 (1834). Type as above.
Information
Tree to 12 m high; bark smooth, yellowish to grey; young branchlets glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves glabrous or sub-glabrous to sparingly puberulous: petiole 5—8,5 cm long, with a large slightly raised elongated gland up to 11 mm long situated a short distance above the pulvinus; rhachis 3,5-13 cm long; pinnae 2-4 pairs; rhachillae 7-19(24) cm long; leaflets 5-11 pairs, 15-60 X 8-21 mm, obliquely oblong, elliptic-oblong or obovate, apex obtuse or rounded, often somewhat emarginate, upper surface very sparingly appressed-pubescent, lower surface paler, appressed-pubescent. Inflorescences globose, in axillary or terminal panicles; peduncles glabrous or sparingly puberulous. Flowers whitish, sessile or almost so; bracteoles rapidly deciduous. Calyx 2-3 mm long, glabrous or almost so. Corolla 4-6 mm long, apices of lobes with a conspicuous tuft of hairs. Stamens up to 1,5 cm long, united basally, tube not or scarcely exserted beyond the corolla. Ovary glabrous. Pods light to dark brown, 8-16 X 1,5-2 cm, linear-oblong, acuminate apically,
Habitat
A. procera bears a superficial resemblance to A. lebbeck, but differs in having the midrib of the leaflets ± centric, a panicled inflorescence, ± sessile flowers, and much smaller pods.
Use
13. Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. in Hook., Lond. J. Bot. 3 : 89 (1844); in Fl. Austral. 2 : 422 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 564 (1875); Bak. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 : 299 (1878); Brenan, Checklist Tang. Terr. 342 (1949); Ross, Fl. Natal 192 (1973). Type: India, Roxburgh (K, painting of holotype material, No. 485!).
Range
A native of India. Introduced into our area and now naturalized in parts of Natal.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Albizia procera [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Mimosa procera Roxb., PI. Corom. 2 : 12, t.121 (1799); Fl. Ind. 2 : 548 (1832). Type as above. Acacia procera (Roxb.) Willd., Sp. PI. 4 : 1063 (1806); DC, Prodr. 2 : 466 (1825); Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. 1 : 275 (1834). Type as above.
Information
Tree to 12 m high; bark smooth, yellowish to grey; young branchlets glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves glabrous or sub-glabrous to sparingly puberulous: petiole 5—8,5 cm long, with a large slightly raised elongated gland up to 11 mm long situated a short distance above the pulvinus; rhachis 3,5-13 cm long; pinnae 2-4 pairs; rhachillae 7-19(24) cm long; leaflets 5-11 pairs, 15-60 X 8-21 mm, obliquely oblong, elliptic-oblong or obovate, apex obtuse or rounded, often somewhat emarginate, upper surface very sparingly appressed-pubescent, lower surface paler, appressed-pubescent. Inflorescences globose, in axillary or terminal panicles; peduncles glabrous or sparingly puberulous. Flowers whitish, sessile or almost so; bracteoles rapidly deciduous. Calyx 2-3 mm long, glabrous or almost so. Corolla 4-6 mm long, apices of lobes with a conspicuous tuft of hairs. Stamens up to 1,5 cm long, united basally, tube not or scarcely exserted beyond the corolla. Ovary glabrous. Pods light to dark brown, 8-16 X 1,5-2 cm, linear-oblong, acuminate apically,
Habitat
A. procera bears a superficial resemblance to A. lebbeck, but differs in having the midrib of the leaflets ± centric, a panicled inflorescence, ± sessile flowers, and much smaller pods.
Use
13. Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. in Hook., Lond. J. Bot. 3 : 89 (1844); in Fl. Austral. 2 : 422 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 564 (1875); Bak. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 : 299 (1878); Brenan, Checklist Tang. Terr. 342 (1949); Ross, Fl. Natal 192 (1973). Type: India, Roxburgh (K, painting of holotype material, No. 485!).
Range
A native of India. Introduced into our area and now naturalized in parts of Natal.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Albizia procera [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Mimosa procera Roxb., PI. Corom. 2 : 12, t.121 (1799); Fl. Ind. 2 : 548 (1832). Type as above. Acacia procera (Roxb.) Willd., Sp. PI. 4 : 1063 (1806); DC, Prodr. 2 : 466 (1825); Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. 1 : 275 (1834). Type as above.
Information
Tree to 12 m high; bark smooth, yellowish to grey; young branchlets glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves glabrous or sub-glabrous to sparingly puberulous: petiole 5—8,5 cm long, with a large slightly raised elongated gland up to 11 mm long situated a short distance above the pulvinus; rhachis 3,5-13 cm long; pinnae 2-4 pairs; rhachillae 7-19(24) cm long; leaflets 5-11 pairs, 15-60 X 8-21 mm, obliquely oblong, elliptic-oblong or obovate, apex obtuse or rounded, often somewhat emarginate, upper surface very sparingly appressed-pubescent, lower surface paler, appressed-pubescent. Inflorescences globose, in axillary or terminal panicles; peduncles glabrous or sparingly puberulous. Flowers whitish, sessile or almost so; bracteoles rapidly deciduous. Calyx 2-3 mm long, glabrous or almost so. Corolla 4-6 mm long, apices of lobes with a conspicuous tuft of hairs. Stamens up to 1,5 cm long, united basally, tube not or scarcely exserted beyond the corolla. Ovary glabrous. Pods light to dark brown, 8-16 X 1,5-2 cm, linear-oblong, acuminate apically,
Habitat
A. procera bears a superficial resemblance to A. lebbeck, but differs in having the midrib of the leaflets ± centric, a panicled inflorescence, ± sessile flowers, and much smaller pods.
Use
13. Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. in Hook., Lond. J. Bot. 3 : 89 (1844); in Fl. Austral. 2 : 422 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 564 (1875); Bak. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 : 299 (1878); Brenan, Checklist Tang. Terr. 342 (1949); Ross, Fl. Natal 192 (1973). Type: India, Roxburgh (K, painting of holotype material, No. 485!).
Range
A native of India. Introduced into our area and now naturalized in parts of Natal.
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