Description ⁴

Small shrubs 1-2 m tall with a flattened top, hence triangular funnel-shaped in vertical profile, with numerous grey branches starting from soil surface ; spines straight, ca. 2 cm long, hard, white with a brown tip, grouped in pairs on a strong basal peduncle. Leaves ca 3 cm long, with 3-12 pairs of pinnae having 5-15 pairs of leaflets each. Flowers whitish, very fragrant, clustered in balls of 1-3 in the axil of spines on a short peduncle not exceeding 1.3 cm. Pods flat elongated-ellipsoid in shape acute at both ends with a sub-mucronate tip, 5-10 cm long by 1.2-1.3 cm wide. Seeds of an olive-green color, numbering 5-10 per pod.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Royal Botanic Garden  Edinburgh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://data.rbge.org.uk/images/96655/700
2. (c) Royal Botanic Garden  Edinburgh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://data.rbge.org.uk/images/96643/700
3. (c) Dcarlson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acacia-oerfota-range-map.png
4. (c) Bibliotheca Alexandrina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/16900471

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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