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Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Pl. Bequaert. 3: 62 (1925). — Brenan, F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 95, fig. 15/21 (1959). — Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Handb. Vasc. Pl. Sydney Distr. & Blue Mts.: 231 (1962). Type from Kenya. Acacia decurrens var. mollis Lindl. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Reg.: t. 371 (1819). — Gilberts & Boutique, F.C.B. 3: 168 (1952). Type a cultivated plant, apparently not preserved. Acacia mollissima [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 345 (1932). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 333 (1949). — F. White, F.F.N.R.: 82 (1962).
Information
Tree 2-15 m. high, unarmed; crown conical or rounded; all parts (except flowers) ± densely pubescent or puberulous. Leaves: petiole 1.5-2.5 cm. long, often with a gland above; rhachis usually 4-12 cm. long, with numerous raised glands all along its upper side both at and between insertions of pinnae-pairs; pinnae (8)12-21 pairs; leaflets usually in 16-70 pairs, 1.5 x 0.5-0.75 mm., linear-oblong. Flowers pale-yellow, fragrant, in heads 5-8 mm. in diam. on peduncles 2-6 mm. long, panicled. Pods dehiscing along one margin only, usually c. 3-10 x 0.5-0.8 cm., with 3-12 joints, ± grey-puberulous, jointed, almost moniliform (in Australia forms with less moniliform, almost glabrous pods occur). Seeds black, 5 x 3.5 mm., smooth, elliptic, compressed; caruncle conspicuous; areole 3.5 x 2 mm.
Range
A native of AustraliaIn East Africa it has become locally naturalized in Kenya and Tanzania, as it is in the Eastern Division of Rhodesia in our area.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyanga Distr., near Pungwe R., fl. viii.1956, Pardy 25/56 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Manica, Penhalonga, near Guido’s Farm, fl. & fr. viii.1911. Dawe 396 (K).Zimbabwe C Marandellas, Forshaw’s road, fl. 10.ix.1949, Corby 457 (SRGH).

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Pl. Bequaert. 3: 62 (1925). — Brenan, F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 95, fig. 15/21 (1959). — Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Handb. Vasc. Pl. Sydney Distr. & Blue Mts.: 231 (1962). Type from Kenya. Acacia decurrens var. mollis Lindl. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Reg.: t. 371 (1819). — Gilberts & Boutique, F.C.B. 3: 168 (1952). Type a cultivated plant, apparently not preserved. Acacia mollissima [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 345 (1932). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 333 (1949). — F. White, F.F.N.R.: 82 (1962).
Information
Tree 2-15 m. high, unarmed; crown conical or rounded; all parts (except flowers) ± densely pubescent or puberulous. Leaves: petiole 1.5-2.5 cm. long, often with a gland above; rhachis usually 4-12 cm. long, with numerous raised glands all along its upper side both at and between insertions of pinnae-pairs; pinnae (8)12-21 pairs; leaflets usually in 16-70 pairs, 1.5 x 0.5-0.75 mm., linear-oblong. Flowers pale-yellow, fragrant, in heads 5-8 mm. in diam. on peduncles 2-6 mm. long, panicled. Pods dehiscing along one margin only, usually c. 3-10 x 0.5-0.8 cm., with 3-12 joints, ± grey-puberulous, jointed, almost moniliform (in Australia forms with less moniliform, almost glabrous pods occur). Seeds black, 5 x 3.5 mm., smooth, elliptic, compressed; caruncle conspicuous; areole 3.5 x 2 mm.
Range
A native of AustraliaIn East Africa it has become locally naturalized in Kenya and Tanzania, as it is in the Eastern Division of Rhodesia in our area.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyanga Distr., near Pungwe R., fl. viii.1956, Pardy 25/56 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Manica, Penhalonga, near Guido’s Farm, fl. & fr. viii.1911. Dawe 396 (K).Zimbabwe C Marandellas, Forshaw’s road, fl. 10.ix.1949, Corby 457 (SRGH).

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Pl. Bequaert. 3: 62 (1925). — Brenan, F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 95, fig. 15/21 (1959). — Tindale in Beadle, Evans & Carolin, Handb. Vasc. Pl. Sydney Distr. & Blue Mts.: 231 (1962). Type from Kenya. Acacia decurrens var. mollis Lindl. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Reg.: t. 371 (1819). — Gilberts & Boutique, F.C.B. 3: 168 (1952). Type a cultivated plant, apparently not preserved. Acacia mollissima [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 345 (1932). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 333 (1949). — F. White, F.F.N.R.: 82 (1962).
Information
Tree 2-15 m. high, unarmed; crown conical or rounded; all parts (except flowers) ± densely pubescent or puberulous. Leaves: petiole 1.5-2.5 cm. long, often with a gland above; rhachis usually 4-12 cm. long, with numerous raised glands all along its upper side both at and between insertions of pinnae-pairs; pinnae (8)12-21 pairs; leaflets usually in 16-70 pairs, 1.5 x 0.5-0.75 mm., linear-oblong. Flowers pale-yellow, fragrant, in heads 5-8 mm. in diam. on peduncles 2-6 mm. long, panicled. Pods dehiscing along one margin only, usually c. 3-10 x 0.5-0.8 cm., with 3-12 joints, ± grey-puberulous, jointed, almost moniliform (in Australia forms with less moniliform, almost glabrous pods occur). Seeds black, 5 x 3.5 mm., smooth, elliptic, compressed; caruncle conspicuous; areole 3.5 x 2 mm.
Range
A native of AustraliaIn East Africa it has become locally naturalized in Kenya and Tanzania, as it is in the Eastern Division of Rhodesia in our area.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyanga Distr., near Pungwe R., fl. viii.1956, Pardy 25/56 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Manica, Penhalonga, near Guido’s Farm, fl. & fr. viii.1911. Dawe 396 (K).Zimbabwe C Marandellas, Forshaw’s road, fl. 10.ix.1949, Corby 457 (SRGH).
Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
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