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ACACIA erubescens Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
ACACIA erubescens Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], mss.
Information
A small much-branched tree; extremities obsoletely pubescent, pale cinnamon-brown. Infra-stipular prickles short, sharply recurved. Leaf-rachis 1–1 1/2 in., slender, thinly pubescent, with a sessile small gland below the lowest pinnæ; pinnæ in 4–5 pairs, leaflets 10–14-jugate, linear-oblong, obliquely broadly pointed, glabrous, drying pale green, 2–3 lines long. Spikes axillary on leafless branches, about 1 1/2 in. long with the short peduncle, rather dense. Flowers rose-white (grey-yellow when dry), sessile. Calyx cupuliform, 5-fid, with ovate- or oblong-lanceolate teeth, clothed with short dense grey tomentum. Petals united two-thirds their length, rather longer than the calyx and similarly pubescent externally. Ovary very shortly stipitate. Legume not seen.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Bumbo, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
Affords abundantly the best gum collected in this region (Dr. W.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
ACACIA erubescens Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], mss.
Information
A small much-branched tree; extremities obsoletely pubescent, pale cinnamon-brown. Infra-stipular prickles short, sharply recurved. Leaf-rachis 1–1 1/2 in., slender, thinly pubescent, with a sessile small gland below the lowest pinnæ; pinnæ in 4–5 pairs, leaflets 10–14-jugate, linear-oblong, obliquely broadly pointed, glabrous, drying pale green, 2–3 lines long. Spikes axillary on leafless branches, about 1 1/2 in. long with the short peduncle, rather dense. Flowers rose-white (grey-yellow when dry), sessile. Calyx cupuliform, 5-fid, with ovate- or oblong-lanceolate teeth, clothed with short dense grey tomentum. Petals united two-thirds their length, rather longer than the calyx and similarly pubescent externally. Ovary very shortly stipitate. Legume not seen.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Bumbo, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
Affords abundantly the best gum collected in this region (Dr. W.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
ACACIA erubescens Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], mss.
Information
A small much-branched tree; extremities obsoletely pubescent, pale cinnamon-brown. Infra-stipular prickles short, sharply recurved. Leaf-rachis 1–1 1/2 in., slender, thinly pubescent, with a sessile small gland below the lowest pinnæ; pinnæ in 4–5 pairs, leaflets 10–14-jugate, linear-oblong, obliquely broadly pointed, glabrous, drying pale green, 2–3 lines long. Spikes axillary on leafless branches, about 1 1/2 in. long with the short peduncle, rather dense. Flowers rose-white (grey-yellow when dry), sessile. Calyx cupuliform, 5-fid, with ovate- or oblong-lanceolate teeth, clothed with short dense grey tomentum. Petals united two-thirds their length, rather longer than the calyx and similarly pubescent externally. Ovary very shortly stipitate. Legume not seen.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Bumbo, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
Affords abundantly the best gum collected in this region (Dr. W.).
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