Fabaceae
Vachellia

Vachellia davyi (N.E.Br.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 172: 512 (2013)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mozambique to S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/146446917/146446919

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone; bushland and thicket., Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket, Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub/Tree
[ILDIS]

Leguminosae, J.P.M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 3:1. 1970

Morphology General Habit
Small tree 2-4·5 m. high; bark thick, soft, corky, yellow to yellowish-brown; young branchlets puberulous, later glabrescent, turning grey-brown.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules spinescent, short, up to (2)3 cm. long, slender, mostly ascending; “ant-galls” and other prickles absent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves with small sessile glands at the junctions of the top 1-3 (rarely to 7) pairs of pinnae and often at or near the junction of the lowest pair also; pinnae (10)14-27 pairs; leaflets (17)20-44 pairs, 2·5-5·5 x 0·7-1 mm., glabrous, entire, eglandular, obtuse to subacute but not spinulose-mucronate at the apex; lateral nerves invisible beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers deep-yellow, in axillary fascicled pedunculate heads 5-7 mm. in diam. borne along shoots of the current year and often in ± elongate terminal “racemes”, involucel 1/3-2/3-way up the peduncle, c. 1·5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1·25-1·5 mm. long, glabrous except on the lobes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla 1·75 mm. long, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods dehiscent, 5-12 x 0·5-0·8 cm., linear, straight to falcate, not or somewhat constricted between the seeds, sometimes torulose, glabrous, eglandular, inconspicuously venose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds olive-brown, 6-7·5 x 5·5 mm., elliptic to subcircular, compressed: areole 4·5 x 2·5-3·5 mm.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Wood Anatomy Microscope Slides

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