{"id":11594,"date":"2020-11-10T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/vachellia-wight-arn-3\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T16:22:28","slug":"vachellia-wight-arn-3","status":"publish","type":"genus","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/vachellia-wight-arn-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Vachellia Wight &#038; Arn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genus composed of about 160 species previously included in the genus <em>Acacia. <\/em>It is distributed across Asia, Australia, America and Africa, with more than 70 species in the latter. It includes species of trees and shrubs, with flowers grouped into globose glomeruli, and bipinnate leaves with spiny stipules, often swollen at the base. The most diagnostic characters for the genus are mainly concerned with the leaves (number of pinnae and leaflets), the size of the stipular spines and the properties of the pods. Regarding the flowers, they are very simple and of little diagnostic value, arranged in spherical inflorescences, and have a small calyx, gamosepalous, campanulate with 5 teeth, and a corolla, also small with 5 petals fused at the base, oblong or ovate, glabrous or hairy. The flowers have numerous stamens with filaments long, white, cream, whitish-yellow, yellow or yellowish-orange, which give the colour to the inflorescence.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the native species, <em>V. farnesiana<\/em> and <em>V. karroo <\/em>appear punctually naturalised in North Africa. <em>V. farnesiana <\/em>(L.) Wight &amp; Arn., (<em>Mimosa farnesiana<\/em> L., <em>Acacia farnesiana <\/em>(L.) Willd.) is a deciduous shrub or tree native to tropical America, now cultivated in most of North Africa. It has pinnate leaves, with 2-8 pinnae, each with 10-21 pairs of leaflets 2-7 \u00d7 0.75-1 mm, and small stipular spines, 0.5-1.5(3) cm; flowers, yellow, arranged in spherical capitula 1-1.5 cm in diameter, and pods 4-7.5(9) \u00d7 0.8-1.5(2) cm, hard and subcylindrical in cross section. A very similar species is <em>V. <\/em><em>karroo <\/em>(Hayne) Banfi &amp; Galasso (<em>A. karroo <\/em>Hayne, <em>A. horrida <\/em>auct.), native to southern Africa and cultivated across most of the territory, it is differentiated by its leaves, with more pinnae [(1)2-7(13) pairs] and leaflets [5-15(27) pairs by pinna, 1-3(5.5) mm wide], larger spines 0.5-10(25) mm, and pods (4)6-16(21) \u00d7 0.6-1 cm., compressed and torulose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","short_name":"Vachellia","name_html":"<strong>Vachellia<\/strong> Wight & Arn.","short_description":"","references":"Brenam, J.P.M. 1983. <em>Manual on taxonomy of <\/em>Acacia<em> species. Present Taxonomy of Four Species of <\/em>Acacia (A. Albida, A. Senegal, A. Nilotica, A. Tortilis). FAO. Roma. 47 pp. http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/006\/Q2934E\/Q2934E00.htm#TOC\r\n\r\nCelle, J. &amp; Mani\u00e8re, R. 1980. Remarques sur la distribution en Afrique nord-occidentale d\u2019<em>Acacia seyal<\/em> Delile et d\u2019<em>Acacia ehrenbergiana<\/em> Hayne. <em>Candollea<\/em> 35: 183-200.\r\n\r\nChevalier, A. 1928. R\u00e9vision des Acacia du nord, de l'ouest et du centre africain. <em>Revue de botanique appliqu\u00e9e et d'agriculture coloniale <\/em>77: 46-52; 78: 123-130; 79: 197-206; 80: 263-270; 81: 357-362; 82: 432-434; 83: 496-501; 84: 574-579; 85: 643-650; 86: 707-715.\r\n\r\nKyalangalilwa, B., Boatwhright, J.S., Daru, B.H. Maurin, O. &amp; Van Der Bank, M. 2013. Phylogenetic position and revised classification of <em>Acacia <\/em>s.l. (<em>Fabaceae: Mimosoideae<\/em>) in Africa, including new combinations in <em>Vachellia <\/em>and <em>Senegalia<\/em>. <em>Bot. J. Linn. Soc<\/em>. 172: 500-523.\r\n\r\nMiller, J.T. &amp; Seigler, D. 2012. Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of <em>Acacia<\/em> s.l. (<em>Leguminosae: Mimosoideae<\/em>). <em>Austr. Syst. Bot<\/em>. 25: 217-224.\r\n\r\nRoss, J.H. 1981. An analysis of the African Acacia species: their distribution, possible origins and relationships. <em>Bothalia<\/em> 13 (3\/4): 389-413.","custom_author":"J.A. 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