Acacia villosa

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Overview

Habit: Shrub

Vulnerable

Description

Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Mimosoideae

Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly bipinnate. Corolla usually not showy, actinomorphic , sympetalous , the lobes valvate . Stamens 10-numerous, often monadelphous , showy. Pollen released in monads , tetrads , or polyads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) present. [Carr]

Genus Acacia

Trees , shrubs , rarely herbs, often prickly or spinose . Leaves bipinnate; leaflets small and numerous or leaves reduced to phyllodes; petiolar glands often present; stipules generally spinescent . Inflorescence cylindric spike or globose head ; peduncle solitary axillary or fasciculate or paniculate at the end of branches; bracts often two, scale like, situated on the peduncle at various levels. Flowers small, 3-5-merous, bisexual or plants polygamous. Calyx campanulate , dentate , lobed or polysepalous . Petals usually more or less united , rarely absent. Stamens indefinite, free or shortly and irregularly connate at the base ; anthers small, eglandular . Ovary sessile or stipitate , with 2 or more ovules. Fruit ovate to linear , straight, arcuate or contorted, membranous to woody, rarely articulated or moniliform . Seed large, with a filiform funicle or fleshy aril.

A genus with about 900 species; distributed mainly in tropics and subtropics, especially in Africa and Australia.[1]

Habitat

Ecology: The species is locally common in thickets on gravel .[2]

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Acacia carbonaria Schltdl.
2. Acacia cumingii Benth.
3. Acacia hirsuta Schltdl.
4. Acacia lasiocarpa var. villosa (E. Pritz.)maslin
5. Acacia lasiocarpa villosa (E. Pritzel) Maslin
6. Acacia lophanthoides Dc.
7. Acacia oerstedii (Britton & Rose)standl.
8. Acacia valenzuelana A. Rich.
9. Acaciella bakeri Britton & Rose
10. Acaciella cumingii (Benth.)britton & Rose
11. Acaciella fisheri Britton & Rose
12. Acaciella oerstedii Britton & Rose
13. Acaciella rekoi Britton & Rose
14. Acaciella villosa (Sw.)britton & Rose
15. Mimosa microphylla Sesse & Moc.
16. Mimosa villosa Sw.

Notes

Publishing author : Britton & Rose Publication : N. Amer. Fl. xxiii. 104 (1928). Publishing author: Standl. Publication: in Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, Bot. Ser., xviii. 489 (1937) Basionym author: (Britton & Rose) Publishing author: DC. Publication: Prodr. (DC.) 2: 457 1825 [mid Nov 1825] Publishing author: Schltdl. Publication: Linnaea 12: 571 1838 Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Rico M .L., 1994

Place of publication: Sp. pl. 4(2):1067. 1806

Name verified on 26-Oct-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Aug-2002

Similar Species

Members of the genus Acacia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2783 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. abbatiana · A. abbreviata · A. abietina · A. abrupta · A. abstergens · A. abyssinica (Nyanga Flat-Top) · A. abyssinica abyssinica · A. abyssinica calophylla · A. acanthaster · A. acanthocarpa · A. acanthoclada (Harrow Wattle) · A. acanthoclada acanthoclada · A. acanthoclada glaucescens · A. acanthoclada subsp. glaucescens · A. acanthoclada var. glaucescens (Harrow Wattle) · A. acantholoba · A. acanthophora · A. acanthophylla · A. acapulcensis · A. acatlensis · A. accola · A. acellerata · A. acicularis · A. acinacea (Round-Leaved Wattle) · A. acinacea 'Ruby Tips' · A. acinacea var. brevipedunculata · A. aciphylla · A. acoma · A. acradena · A. acradenia · A. acrionastes · A. acuaria · A. acuifera · A. aculeaticarpa (Catclaw Mimosa) · A. aculeatissima (Thin-Leaf Wattle) · A. aculeiformis · A. acuminata (Raspberry Jam) · A. acuminata acuminata (Raspberry Jam) · A. acuminata burkittii · A. acutangula · A. acutata · A. acutifolia · A. acutistipula · A. adansonii · A. adenanthera · A. adenantheroides · A. adenocalyx · A. adenocarpa · A. adenogonia · A. adenopa · A. adenophora · A. adenostylis · A. adhaerens · A. adherens · A. adiantoides · A. adinophylla · A. adnata · A. adoxa · A. adoxa var. adoxa · A. adoxa var. subglabra · A. adpressa · A. adstringens · A. adsurgens · A. adunca (Wallangarra Wattle) · A. aegyptiaca · A. aemula · A. aemula aemula · A. aemula muricata · A. aemula subsp. muricata · A. aestivalis · A. alata (Winged Wattle) · A. alata var. alata · A. alata var. biglandulosa · A. alata var. glabrata · A. alata var. platyptera · A. alata var. tetrantha · A. alaticaulis · A. alba · A. albescens · A. albicans · A. albicorticata (Espinillo Blanco) · A. albida · A. albizioides (Climbing Wattle) · A. albocorticata · A. alcockii · A. alemquerensis · A. alexandri · A. alleniana · A. allenii · A. alliacea · A. alocophylla · A. alpina (Alpine Wattle) · A. altiscandens · A. alvaroi · A. amabilis · A. amambayensis · A. amanda · A. amazonica · A. ambigua · A. amblygona (Fan Wattle)

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Further Reading

• Adams, C.D. 1972. Flowering Plants of Jamaica. University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
• Annales des sciences naturelles: comprenant La physiologie animale et végétale, l'anatomie comparée des deux règnes, la zoologie, la botanique, la minéralogie et la géologie Paris: Crochard FRE url p. 425.
• Bellingham, P. 1997. Comments on tree species in the Blue Mountains.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London.Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910- ENG url p. 137, p. 141, p. 148, p. 92.
• Flora voor de Nederlandsch West-Indische eilanden, door I. Boldingh Amsterdam, Druk. van J. H. de Bussy, 1913. DUT url p. 24, p. 416, p. 417, p. 423, p. 425.
• Flora, Tehuacán Valley [by] C. Earle Smith, Jr. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1965. ENG url p. 119.
• Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. ENG url p. 100, p. 14, p. 82.
• J. Arnold Arbor. 57:113. [E. Shaw & B. G. Schubert].
• Lista de las plantas encontradas hasta ahora en Costa Rica y en los territorios limítrofes: extractada de la "Biologia centrali-americana." [San José: Tip. Nacional, 1888] SPA url p. 28.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 ENG url p. 179.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 462.
• The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).
• The flora of Jamaica; a description of the plants of that island, arranged according to the natural orders. With and appendix, containing an enumeration of the genera according to the Linnaean system, and an essay on the geographical destribution of the s London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman; [etc., etc.]1837. ENG url p. 319.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama) [accepts].

Notes

Contributors

• Bellingham, P. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed September 17, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
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• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 04, 2008)
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 27, 2008:

• The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2836783
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11568
• GRIN Nomen Number: 1029
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 471760-1
• IUCN ID: 33696
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 400260

Footnotes

1. "Acacia". in Flora of Pakistan. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Bellingham, P. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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