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Acacia [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
Acacia [family FABACEAE]
Information
? Tree. Branches unarmed, glabrous, lenticellate. Stipules not evident. Leaves: petiole and rhachis together 10 cm long, terete, glabrous, petiole with an oblong sessile adaxial gland; pinnae 8 pairs; rhachil­lae 2,5-3,75 cm long; leaflets 12-14 pairs per pinna, 14-16 x 6-8 mm, semihastate-oblong, acute apically, rounded-truncate basally, margins ciliate. Inflorescence a termi­nal panicle, branchlets patent; peduncles 4-8 mm long, solitary or rarely paired. Flowers in round heads, sessile, hermaphro­dite. Calyx and corolla infundibuliform, green, puberulous outside. Calyx half as long as the corolla, shortly 5-lobed. Corolla 5 mm long, 5-lobed. Stamens ± 20; filaments united below, reddish, exceeding the corolla. Pods unknown.
Habitat
Yago Promontorii viridis", seen in Krauss's herba­rium. No type specimen was cited and no specimen bearing this name or any further reference to the species in literature has been traced. Neither Harvey in Fl. Cap., vol. 2 (1862), nor Bentham in his revision of Mimoseae in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Vol. 30 (1875) mention A. callicoma. The description suggests that the specimen Meisner saw was not an Acacia but, in the absence of a specimen, the precise identity of A. callicoma remains unknown.
Use
47. Acacia callicoma Meisn. in Hook., Lond. J. Bot. 2 : 104 (1843). Type unknown.
Range
Meisner based his description of A. callicoma on a specimen without fruits and of unknown proven­ance, "loco natali incerto, aut Port Natal, aut Ins. S.
Acacia [family FABACEAE]
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