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Sticky Acacia

Vachellia borleae (Burtt Davy) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Derivation of specific name

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borleae: named after Mrs Jeanne Borle (born 1880), wife of a Swiss missionary, who collected the type specimen in southern Mozambique.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acacia borleae Burtt Davy Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125800
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Description

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Usually a multi-stemmed shrub up to c. 3 m high, rarely a small slender tree up to 5 m. Bark dark reddish-brown; young branches with numerous pale reddish, often sticky glands. Spines paired at the nodes, slender, straight or slightly deflexed, whitish, up to 5 cm long. Leaves alternate, bi-pinnate with 5-10 pairs of pinnae, each with 5-15 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets yellowish-green, 1.5-6.5 mm long with numerous small sticky glands; margins appearing scalloped, due to the presence of the glands; petiole up to 2 cm long without a gland but often with a distinct gland between the lowest pair of pinnae. Flowers in axillary clusters of small bright yellow balls. Pod distinctly curved, sometimes almost forming a circle, slender, up to 8 cm long, constricted between the seeds, covered in reddish sticky glands, dehiscent.
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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 borleae Burtt Davy Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125800
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Frequency

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Locally common
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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 borleae Burtt Davy Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125800
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acacia borleae Burtt Davy Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125800
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe