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Acacia decurrens [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 decurrens [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Mimosa decurrens Donn, Hort. Cant. 1 : 114 (1796) nomen nudum.
Information
Unarmed tree up to 12 m high with a conical or rounded crown; young branchlets prominently angled, sometimes with wing-like ridges 1-2 mm high, glabrous or the very young shoots slightly tomentose-pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, green, decurrent: petiole angular, 1,5-3,5 cm long, often eglandular; rhachis 3-10 cm long, with a raised gland just below the junction of each pinna pair; pinnae (5)8-15 pairs; leaflets 15-35 pairs, 6-15 x 0,3-0,75 mm, linear, usually glabrous throughout. Inflorescences capitate, panicled or racemose. Flowers bright golden-yellow; peduncles 2-5 mm long. Calyx sparingly pubescent on apices of lobes. Corolla glabrous or almost so. Pods brown or dark brown, 3,5-10 X 0,4-0,7 cm, not or only slightly moniliform, dehiscing longituÂdinally along one margin only, straight or slightly curved. Seeds brown to blackish-brown, ±5 x 3,5 mm, elliptic, compressed, smooth; caruncle conspicuous; areole ± 3,5 x 2mm.
Habitat
A. decurrens, commonly known as the Green Wattle, is readily distinguished by its long narrow leaflets from all of the other introduced Acacia species with bipinnate leaves in our area.
Use
51. Acacia decurrens Willd., Sp. PI. 4 : 1072 (1806); Benth. in Fl. Austral. 2 : 414 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 496 (1875); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 2 : 345 (1932); Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Handb. Vase. PI. Sydney Distr. & Blue Mts. 230 (1962); Court in Willis, Handb. PI. Victoria 2 : 244 (1972); Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Fl. Sydney Region 273 (1972); Ross, Fl. Natal 193 (1973); in Bothalia 11 : 466 (1975). Type from Australia, unknown.
Range
Introduced from Australia.
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 decurrens [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Mimosa decurrens Donn, Hort. Cant. 1 : 114 (1796) nomen nudum.
Information
Unarmed tree up to 12 m high with a conical or rounded crown; young branchlets prominently angled, sometimes with wing-like ridges 1-2 mm high, glabrous or the very young shoots slightly tomentose-pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, green, decurrent: petiole angular, 1,5-3,5 cm long, often eglandular; rhachis 3-10 cm long, with a raised gland just below the junction of each pinna pair; pinnae (5)8-15 pairs; leaflets 15-35 pairs, 6-15 x 0,3-0,75 mm, linear, usually glabrous throughout. Inflorescences capitate, panicled or racemose. Flowers bright golden-yellow; peduncles 2-5 mm long. Calyx sparingly pubescent on apices of lobes. Corolla glabrous or almost so. Pods brown or dark brown, 3,5-10 X 0,4-0,7 cm, not or only slightly moniliform, dehiscing longituÂdinally along one margin only, straight or slightly curved. Seeds brown to blackish-brown, ±5 x 3,5 mm, elliptic, compressed, smooth; caruncle conspicuous; areole ± 3,5 x 2mm.
Habitat
A. decurrens, commonly known as the Green Wattle, is readily distinguished by its long narrow leaflets from all of the other introduced Acacia species with bipinnate leaves in our area.
Use
51. Acacia decurrens Willd., Sp. PI. 4 : 1072 (1806); Benth. in Fl. Austral. 2 : 414 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 496 (1875); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 2 : 345 (1932); Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Handb. Vase. PI. Sydney Distr. & Blue Mts. 230 (1962); Court in Willis, Handb. PI. Victoria 2 : 244 (1972); Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Fl. Sydney Region 273 (1972); Ross, Fl. Natal 193 (1973); in Bothalia 11 : 466 (1975). Type from Australia, unknown.
Range
Introduced from Australia.
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 decurrens [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Mimosa decurrens Donn, Hort. Cant. 1 : 114 (1796) nomen nudum.
Information
Unarmed tree up to 12 m high with a conical or rounded crown; young branchlets prominently angled, sometimes with wing-like ridges 1-2 mm high, glabrous or the very young shoots slightly tomentose-pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, green, decurrent: petiole angular, 1,5-3,5 cm long, often eglandular; rhachis 3-10 cm long, with a raised gland just below the junction of each pinna pair; pinnae (5)8-15 pairs; leaflets 15-35 pairs, 6-15 x 0,3-0,75 mm, linear, usually glabrous throughout. Inflorescences capitate, panicled or racemose. Flowers bright golden-yellow; peduncles 2-5 mm long. Calyx sparingly pubescent on apices of lobes. Corolla glabrous or almost so. Pods brown or dark brown, 3,5-10 X 0,4-0,7 cm, not or only slightly moniliform, dehiscing longituÂdinally along one margin only, straight or slightly curved. Seeds brown to blackish-brown, ±5 x 3,5 mm, elliptic, compressed, smooth; caruncle conspicuous; areole ± 3,5 x 2mm.
Habitat
A. decurrens, commonly known as the Green Wattle, is readily distinguished by its long narrow leaflets from all of the other introduced Acacia species with bipinnate leaves in our area.
Use
51. Acacia decurrens Willd., Sp. PI. 4 : 1072 (1806); Benth. in Fl. Austral. 2 : 414 (1864); in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 : 496 (1875); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 2 : 345 (1932); Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Handb. Vase. PI. Sydney Distr. & Blue Mts. 230 (1962); Court in Willis, Handb. PI. Victoria 2 : 244 (1972); Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Fl. Sydney Region 273 (1972); Ross, Fl. Natal 193 (1973); in Bothalia 11 : 466 (1975). Type from Australia, unknown.
Range
Introduced from Australia.
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