Acacia nebrownii
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22 Mar 2013
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22 Mar 2013
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Full name: | Acacia nebrownii Burtt Davy |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Waterdoring, Slapdoring, Soetdoringbos, Soetdoring |
| English common name(s): | Water-thorn, Water-thorn acacia, Sticky thorn |
| Synonym(s): | Acacia glandulifera Schinz Acacia rogersii Burtt Davy Acacia walteri Suess. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Usually a densely spiny, multi-stemmed, shrub, up to 3 m tall, with slender stems and branches. Young branches orange-red or purplish with shiny smooth bark, thinly peeling, and scattered reddish glands. Spines very white, straight, up to 6 cm long, in pairs at the nodes. Leaves clustered between the spines, short, up to c. 3 x 2 cm, usually with only 1 or 2 pairs of pinnae; leaflets in 3-5 pairs per pinna, up to 8 mm long, yellow-green rounded at the apex, sometimes with a small mucronate tip. Flowers in bright yellow spherical heads at the nodes, sweetly scented. Pods small, usually less than 5 cm long, curved, covered with small reddish glands, dehiscent. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Many stemmed shrub with slender ascending branches or occasionally a slender tree to 4 m high. Bark reddish-brown to purplish-black; young branchlets yellowish-or reddish-brown to purplish, sometimes as though whitewashed over a purple background, with numerous dark sessile pustular glands, sometimes glutinous, glabrous or subglabrous. Stipules spinescent, in pairs, 0.5-7 cm long, straight or slightly arcuate and deflexed, slender, whitish, tips usually reddish-brown; other prickles absent. Leaves: petiole 0.3-1.4 cm long, glabrous or subglabrous; rhachis 0-0.9 cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, a shortly columnar gland at the junction of the pinna pair; pinnae mostly 1 pair, rarely 3 pairs; rhachillae 0.5-1.4 cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, glandular; leaflets 3-5 pairs per pinna, 2.1-5.7 x 0.9-3(4) mm, linear-oblong to obovate or ovate, eglandular or with some small pale inconspicuous glands on the margin and sometimes the surface, glabrous, margins entire, apex usually shortly mucronate, lateral nerves inconspicuous beneath. Inflorescences capitate, on axillary peduncles, solitary or fascicled. Flowers bright yellow, sessile; peduncles 0.6-2.4 cm long, glabrous or subglabrous, glandular; involucel basal or up to i-way up the peduncle. Calyx glabrous, tube 1-1.6 mm long, lobes up to 0.6 mm long. Corolla glabrous, tube 1.8-2.5 mm long, lobes up to 0.8 mm long, often reflexed. Stamen-filaments free, up to 5.5 mm long; anthers with a deciduous apical gland. Ovary shortly stipitate, up to 1.8 mm long, glabrous. Pods pale to dark yellowish-brown or chestnut, 2-4(5.6) x 0.6-1.3 cm, slightly to strongly falcate, not or scarcely constricted between the seeds, with numerous conspicuous dark sessile pustular glands scattered over the surface, otherwise glabrous, longitudinally dehiscent, venose, apex obtuse, acute or mucronate. Seeds olive to olive-brown, 6-10 x 5-7 mm, elliptic, compressed; areole 4-6 x 2.5-3.5 mm. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) Shrub 1-5 m high (? higher or even a tree to 7 m); young branchlets with numerous dark sessile pustular glands, otherwise glabrous. Stipules spinescent, up to 6 cm long, slender, whitish, sometimes slightly arcuate and deflexed; 'ant-galls' and other prickles absent. Leaves with a shortly columnar or narrowly cup-shaped gland at the junction of the pinna-pair, or at the upper pair of two; pinnae 1(2) pairs; leaflets 3-5 pairs, 2-8 x 1-5 mm, eglandular or with some small pale inconspicuous glands on the margin and sometimes the surface, mostly very shortly mucronate at the apex; margin otherwise glabrous, entire; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Flowers golden-yellow, in axillary pedunculate heads 8-12 mm in diam. produced along last season's shoots; involucel basal or up to 1/4-way up the peduncle, 1-2 mm long. Calyx 1.25-2 mm long, glabrous. Corolla 2.5 mm long, glabrous outside. Pods dehiscent, 2-4.7 x 0.9-1.1 cm, falcate to slightly falcate, not or scarcely constricted between the seeds, with numerous conspicuous dark sessile pustular glands scattered over the surface, otherwise glabrous. Seeds olive to olive-brown, 8-10 x 6-7 mm, elliptic, compressed; areole 4-6 x 3-3.5 mm. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
