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Acacia ataxacantha DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia ataxacantha DC. [Preferred name]
    Acacia eriadenia Benth. {Synonym}
    Acacia lugardiae N.E.Br. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [50]; Benin (N) [11]; Botswana (N) [50]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Central African Rep. (N) [1]; Chad (N) [64]; Guinea (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Kenya (N) [1]; Liberia (N) [11]; Mali (N) [11]; Mozambique (N) [1]; Namibia (N) [50]; Niger (N) [8]; Nigeria (N) [50]; Senegal (N) [50]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; South Africa (N) [50]; Sudan (N) [50]; Swaziland (N) [50]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Togo (N) [8]; Zimbabwe (N) [50]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
    Sudanian wooded grassland [50];
    Zambezian scrub forest [33];
    Zambezian wooded grassland [50];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [50] ; Illustration [50, 65, 410]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing, Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1959
    Mimosoideae.In:Fl.Trop.East Africa.Hubbard & Milne-Redhead

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

11.

  Keay, R.W.J., 1958
    Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

50.

  Ross, J.H., 1979
    Mem.Bot.Surv.S.Afr.44:1-150. A conspectus of African Acacia.

64.

  Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
    IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

65.

  Ross, J.H., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Africa 42:t.1652 - Acacia ataxacantha

410.

  Onderstall, J., 1984
    Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment... South Afr.Wild Fl.Guide 4.
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