Derivation of specific name
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pentagona: 5-angled
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acacia pentagona (Schumach.) Hook. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=126090
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Robust liana, up to 30 m high. Young branches reddish-brown, often coiling to aid climbing; older stems distinctly 5-angled; hooked prickles scattered along the stems. Leaves up to 25 × 15 cm with 8-15 pairs of pinnae; petiole up 6 cm long. Flowers in spherical heads forming a terminal panicle, white. Pod oblong, hard, indehiscent with a thickened margin, brown.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acacia pentagona (Schumach.) Hook. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=126090
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Locally common
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acacia pentagona (Schumach.) Hook. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=126090
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Insects whose larvae eat this plant species
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Charaxes zoolina zoolina (Club-tailed charaxes)
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acacia pentagona (Schumach.) Hook. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=126090
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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From Sierra Leone to Sudan and South to Angola, eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. Also in Madagascar.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acacia pentagona (Schumach.) Hook. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=126090
- author
- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
