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Acacia mellifera (M.Vahl)Benth.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia mellifera (M.Vahl)Benth. [Preferred name]
    Mimosa mellifera M.Vahl {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [50]; Botswana (N) [50]; Egypt (N) [50]; Ethiopia (N) [50]; Kenya (N) [50]; Mozambique (N) [50]; Namibia (N) [50]; Somalia (N) [50]; South Africa (N) [50]; Sudan (N) [50]; Tanzania (N) [50]; Zambia (N) [50]; Zimbabwe (N) [50]
  Asia
India (I) [3367]; Tamil Nadu [3367]; Iran (N) [1939]; Iraq (N) [1939]; Pakistan (I) [2010]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1880]
  Indian Ocean
Mauritius (I) [1915]
  Middle East
Israel (N) [1939]; Oman (N) [1939]; Saudi Arabia (N) [50]; South Yemen (N) [50]; Syria (N) [1939]; Yemen (N) [50]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [1];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1, 50, 1859, 1900, 2010, 3367] ; Illustration [41, 50, 1859]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

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

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

41.

  Engler, A., 1912
    Die Vegetation der Erde:IX:Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3.1

50.

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

1859.

  Collenette, 1985
    Flowers of Saudi Arabia

1880.

  Hnatiuk, R.J., 1990
    Census Australian Vasc. Plants, Bureau Fl. & Fauna, Canberra

1900.

  Migahid, A.M., 1978
    Flora of Saudi Arabia. Ed.2, Vol.1

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.

2010.

  Ali, S.I., 1973
    Flora of Pakistan,No.36.Mimosaceae.Karachi:Univ.of Karachi

3367.

  Chakrabarty T, Gangopadhyay M, 1996
    The genus Acacia. J. Econ. Taxon Bot. 20:599-633
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