Acacia nebrownii Burtt Davy

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Mapungubwe Park, Limpopo Valley, S Africa

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Synonyms:	Acacia rogersii Burtt Davy
Common names:	Water acacia (E) Water thorn (E)
Frequency:	Not widespread but locally common.
Status:	Native
Description:	Usually a densely spiny, multi-stemmed, shrub, up to 3 m tall, with slender stems and branches. Young branches orange-red or purplish with shiny smooth bark, thinly peeling, and scattered reddish glands. Spines very white, straight, up to 6 cm long, in pairs at the nodes. Leaves clustered between the spines, short, up to c. 3 × 2 cm, usually with only 1 or 2 pairs of pinnae; leaflets in 3-5 pairs per pinna, up to 8 mm long, yellow-green rounded at the apex, sometimes with a small mucronate tip. Flowers in bright yellow spherical heads at the nodes, sweetly scented. Pods small, usually less than 5 cm long, curved, covered with small reddish glands, dehiscent.
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Derivation of specific name:	nebrownii: named after botanist N.E. Brown, who did much work on African plants at Kew but never visited the continent.
Habitat:	Occurring along dry watercourses, in grassland and scrub, often forming thickets.
Altitude range: (metres)	Up to 900 m
Flowering time:	Sep - Nov
Worldwide distribution:	Angola(?), Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and just into northern S Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	WS
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 31 July 2007

Other sources of information about Acacia nebrownii:

Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Acacia nebrownii
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Acacia nebrownii
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Acacia nebrownii
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Acacia nebrownii
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Acacia nebrownii
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Acacia nebrownii
West African Plants database: Acacia nebrownii