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ACACIA hecataphylla Steud. [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 hecataphylla Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 242.
Information
Tree; branches finely hoary-tomentose. Infra-stipular prickles short, recurved, often wanting. Foliage and inflorescence as described of A. Catechu, excepting that the leaflets are larger, oblong, and obtuse, 2–3 lines in length, about 1 line broad, and the glands of the rachis fewer. Flowers sessile, pubescent; petals united near the middle, but slightly exceeding the calyx. Legume oblong, obtuse 4 (3–7) in. long, 1 in. broad, valves firmly coriaceous, irregularly and rather obscurely reticulate when ripe, the obscurely raised branching nervures ramifying irregularly, not generally transversely. Seeds about 5 (3–7).
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Madi (755 and No. 9 App. Travels), Speke and Grant!
Notes
Differs from A. Catechu in the larger obtuse leaflets and thicker legume.
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 hecataphylla Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 242.
Information
Tree; branches finely hoary-tomentose. Infra-stipular prickles short, recurved, often wanting. Foliage and inflorescence as described of A. Catechu, excepting that the leaflets are larger, oblong, and obtuse, 2–3 lines in length, about 1 line broad, and the glands of the rachis fewer. Flowers sessile, pubescent; petals united near the middle, but slightly exceeding the calyx. Legume oblong, obtuse 4 (3–7) in. long, 1 in. broad, valves firmly coriaceous, irregularly and rather obscurely reticulate when ripe, the obscurely raised branching nervures ramifying irregularly, not generally transversely. Seeds about 5 (3–7).
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Madi (755 and No. 9 App. Travels), Speke and Grant!
Notes
Differs from A. Catechu in the larger obtuse leaflets and thicker legume.
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 hecataphylla Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 242.
Information
Tree; branches finely hoary-tomentose. Infra-stipular prickles short, recurved, often wanting. Foliage and inflorescence as described of A. Catechu, excepting that the leaflets are larger, oblong, and obtuse, 2–3 lines in length, about 1 line broad, and the glands of the rachis fewer. Flowers sessile, pubescent; petals united near the middle, but slightly exceeding the calyx. Legume oblong, obtuse 4 (3–7) in. long, 1 in. broad, valves firmly coriaceous, irregularly and rather obscurely reticulate when ripe, the obscurely raised branching nervures ramifying irregularly, not generally transversely. Seeds about 5 (3–7).
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Madi (755 and No. 9 App. Travels), Speke and Grant!
Notes
Differs from A. Catechu in the larger obtuse leaflets and thicker legume.
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