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ACACIA Caffra Willd. [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 Caffra Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1842, 509.
Information
Attaining about 20 ft.; extremities pubescent or glabrous. Infra-stipular spines short, dilated at the base, usually slightly recurved at the apex, frequently wanting; occasionally similar thinly scattered spines occur on the internodes. Leaf-rachis usually puberulous, sometimes aculeolate bearing a sessile gland near the base, 2–4 in. long; pinnæ in 6–14 pairs; leaflets linear-oblong, broadly pointed or obtuse, 2 lines long, and 1/2 line broad more or less, in 20–40 pairs. Spikes dense, shortly pedunculate, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, shorter than or occasionally exceeding the leaves. Flowers sessile. Calyx cupuliform, teeth 1/3– 1/2 its depth. Petals narrowed and free at the base, united at the middle; but slightly exceeding the calyx. Legume linear, straight, flat, acuminate or apiculate, stipitate, valves coriaceous, glabrous, obscurely transversely veined, 5–8-seeded, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad.
Range
Common in some parts of South extra-tropical Africa.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Bumbo (flower) and Mossamedes (fruit), Dr. Welwitsch!South Central Lake Ngami, Maccabe!
Notes
The legumes of Dr. Welwitsch's specimens are from 3 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, and nearly 3/4 in. broad, broader and more coriaceous than any specimens which I have seen from the Cape, but they are the only quite mature fruits I have had access to. They are indeed almost the counterpart of the legumes of the Abyssinian forms referred to A. Catechu (A. campylacantha, Hochst.), in which, however, the pinnæ and smaller leaflets are more numerous.

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 Caffra Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1842, 509.
Information
Attaining about 20 ft.; extremities pubescent or glabrous. Infra-stipular spines short, dilated at the base, usually slightly recurved at the apex, frequently wanting; occasionally similar thinly scattered spines occur on the internodes. Leaf-rachis usually puberulous, sometimes aculeolate bearing a sessile gland near the base, 2–4 in. long; pinnæ in 6–14 pairs; leaflets linear-oblong, broadly pointed or obtuse, 2 lines long, and 1/2 line broad more or less, in 20–40 pairs. Spikes dense, shortly pedunculate, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, shorter than or occasionally exceeding the leaves. Flowers sessile. Calyx cupuliform, teeth 1/3– 1/2 its depth. Petals narrowed and free at the base, united at the middle; but slightly exceeding the calyx. Legume linear, straight, flat, acuminate or apiculate, stipitate, valves coriaceous, glabrous, obscurely transversely veined, 5–8-seeded, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad.
Range
Common in some parts of South extra-tropical Africa.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Bumbo (flower) and Mossamedes (fruit), Dr. Welwitsch!South Central Lake Ngami, Maccabe!
Notes
The legumes of Dr. Welwitsch's specimens are from 3 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, and nearly 3/4 in. broad, broader and more coriaceous than any specimens which I have seen from the Cape, but they are the only quite mature fruits I have had access to. They are indeed almost the counterpart of the legumes of the Abyssinian forms referred to A. Catechu (A. campylacantha, Hochst.), in which, however, the pinnæ and smaller leaflets are more numerous.

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 Caffra Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1842, 509.
Information
Attaining about 20 ft.; extremities pubescent or glabrous. Infra-stipular spines short, dilated at the base, usually slightly recurved at the apex, frequently wanting; occasionally similar thinly scattered spines occur on the internodes. Leaf-rachis usually puberulous, sometimes aculeolate bearing a sessile gland near the base, 2–4 in. long; pinnæ in 6–14 pairs; leaflets linear-oblong, broadly pointed or obtuse, 2 lines long, and 1/2 line broad more or less, in 20–40 pairs. Spikes dense, shortly pedunculate, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, shorter than or occasionally exceeding the leaves. Flowers sessile. Calyx cupuliform, teeth 1/3– 1/2 its depth. Petals narrowed and free at the base, united at the middle; but slightly exceeding the calyx. Legume linear, straight, flat, acuminate or apiculate, stipitate, valves coriaceous, glabrous, obscurely transversely veined, 5–8-seeded, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad.
Range
Common in some parts of South extra-tropical Africa.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Bumbo (flower) and Mossamedes (fruit), Dr. Welwitsch!South Central Lake Ngami, Maccabe!
Notes
The legumes of Dr. Welwitsch's specimens are from 3 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, and nearly 3/4 in. broad, broader and more coriaceous than any specimens which I have seen from the Cape, but they are the only quite mature fruits I have had access to. They are indeed almost the counterpart of the legumes of the Abyssinian forms referred to A. Catechu (A. campylacantha, Hochst.), in which, however, the pinnæ and smaller leaflets are more numerous.
ACACIA Caffra Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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