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Acacia xanthophloea Benth.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia xanthophloea Benth. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Fever Tree [1]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Kenya (N) [50]; Malawi (N) [6]; Mozambique (N) [50]; Somalia (N) [1764]; South Africa (N) [50]; Swaziland (N) [50]; Tanzania (N) [50]; Zimbabwe (N) [6]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai woodland [50];
    Zambezian woodland [6];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone ; woodland. [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1, 6, 50] ; Illustration [1, 19, 84, 410]

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

  
NOTES:
  Somali material 1600Km N of nearest other population [1764]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

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

6.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1970
    Mimosoideae.In:Flora Zambeziaca Vol.3(1).Brenan,JPM et al.

19.

  Ross, J.H., 1975
    Mimosoideae.In:Flora Southern Africa Vol.16,pt.1.Ross,J.H.

50.

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

84.

  Ross, J.H., 1971
    Flowering Plants of Africa 41:pl.1637 - Acacia xanthophloea

410.

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

1764.

  Thulin, M., 1989
    Nordic J.Bot. 8:457-488.new/noteworthy legumes NE Trop.Afr.

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