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Acacia pentagona (Schum. & Thonn.)Hook.f.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia pentagona (Schum. & Thonn.)Hook.f. [Preferred name]
    Acacia pentaptera Welw. {Synonym}
    Acacia silvicola G.C.C.Gilbert & Boutique, p.p. {Synonym}
    Mimosa pentagona Schum. & Thonn. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Hafomantsina [3402]; Odifady [3402]; Riofotsy [3402]; Ritro [3402]; Ritromena [3402]; Sambalarevaka [3402]; Vohimalanga [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [50]; Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Congo (N) [74]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [74]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Gabon (N) [74]; Ghana (N) [50]; Guinea (N) [50]; Kenya (N) [50]; Mozambique (N) [50]; Nigeria (N) [50]; Sao Tome & Principe (N) [74]; Sierra Leone (N) [50]; Sudan (N) [50]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Uganda (N) [50]; Zaire (N) [50]; Zimbabwe (N) [50]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; forest. [50];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [50];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest. [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1, 50, 3402] ; Distribution Map [91] ; Illustration [50, 74]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
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

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

50.

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

74.

  Brenan, J.P.M. & Exell, A.W., 1957
    Bol.Soc.Brot.,2,31:99-142. Acacia pennata & its relatives

91.

  Brenan, J.P.M. et al., 1977
    Bull.Int.Group for study of Mimosoideae,5:31-45.Dist. maps..

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
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