Acacia amythethophylla Steud. ex A. Rich. |
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Family : Mimosaceae |
Family (APGIII) : FABACEAE |
Protologue : Fl. Abyss. i. 245. (1847) |
Information on the genus : Acacia |
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Status
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Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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Synonym(s) Homotypic |
Vachellia amythethophylla (Steud. ex A. Rich.) Kyal. & Boatwr. |
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Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
=Acacia macrothyrsa Harms (1900) |
=Vachellia macrothyrsa (Harms) Kyal. & Boatwr. (2013) |
=Acacia buchananii Harms (1901) |
=Acacia dalzielii Craib (1912) |
=Acacia prorsispinula Stapf (1906) |
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Ecology and distribution |
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Biology : |
Tree 4-12 m, or much-branched lax shrub to 5 m tall with trunk free to 8 m, 35 cm Ø; crown crounded, spreading; bark greyish, rough, fissured; stipules spinescent straight, usually in pairs, sometimes absent; |
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Ecology : |
Deciduous savanna woodland; savanna forest, sometimes forming thorny thickets; wooded grassland; dambos, rocky savanna, alluvial plains (Zaire); Albizia zygia and Combretum woodlands (S Sudan, Kenya); rocky hillsides; (30-)600-2000 m alt. etc... |
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Variable in pubescence of branchlets, leaf-rhachides and inflorescence-axes; and in size and number of leaflets. |
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A. macrothyrsa Harms (with the synonyms cited above) is still maintained as a separate species by certain flora authors, to distinguish it from A. amythethophylla (only in Ethiopia and Angola) which is lacking the large panicled inflorescences. |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Boudet G. & J.P. Lebrun (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. Etudes et Synthèses IEMVT 16
- Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:252 (2012)
- Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
- César J. & C. Chatelain (2019). Flore illustrée du Tchad. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Coopération Suisse & Univ. N'Djaména
Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Checklist Flow. Pl. Sub-Saharan Africa : 295 (2006).
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