Flora Zambesiaca

Taxon Detail

FZ volume:3 part:1 (1970) Leguminosae by J.P.M. Brenan

(Search other Kew databases for: Acacia baileyana)

Acacia baileyana F. Muell.

in Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 24: 168 (1887). — Brenan, F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 50 (1959). Type from Australia.

Distribution:

Zimbabwe

E: Inyanga Distr., Nyangani, fl. buds 21.iii.1949, Chase 1664 (SRGH).

Range:

A native of Australia

Habitat:

cultivated for ornament 

Description:

Shrub or tree 5-10 m. high, unarmed; young branchlets ± inconspicuously pubescent. Leaves 2-pinnate, glaucous; petiole very short, c. 2 mm.; pinnae in 2-5 pairs, crowded, c. 0.8-3 cm. long; leaflets 3-8 x 0.8-1.5 mm., glabrous or subciliate on the margins only. Flowers yellow, in heads arranged in axillary racemes longer than the leaves.