Fabaceae
Acaciella

Acaciella glauca (L.) L.Rico

First published in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 63: 210 (2006)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Lesser Antilles, Mexico to NW. Venezuela. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is has environmental uses.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 50 m.; Llanura del Caribe.
Morphology General Habit
Árbol
Conservation
No Evaluada
[CPLC]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Caribbean. Elevation range: 0–50 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Magdalena.
Habit
Tree.
[UPFC]

Mimosaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958

Ecology
Introduced, mostly cultivated or half naturalized by roadsides, etc.
Morphology General Height
To 50 ft. high.
[FWTA]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Shrub or small tree 0.6–9 m. high.
Morphology Branches
Young branchlets densely grey-puberulous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves:petiole 2–4.7 cm. long, often with a gland at junction of lowest pair of pinnae, glands otherwise absent; rhachis 7–14 cm. long; pinnae (2–)3–7 pairs, opposite; leaflets (5–)7–17(–21) pairs, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, 7–18 mm. long, 1.5–5 mm. wide, acute at apex, puberulous on margins and sometimes also on midrib beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Peduncles
Peduncles 2–5 cm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 2–3.5 mm. long, puberulous above outside.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 4–5.25 mm. long, puberulous above outside, pale green.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamen-filaments 6.5–7.5 mm. long, white; anthers hairy.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 8–18 cm. long, (1.4–)1.8–2.1 cm. wide, with a stipe up to 3 cm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds elliptic to obovate, 7.5–9 mm. long, 4–5 mm. wide.
Habitat
A cultivated plant, escaping, seeding freely, and becoming naturalized here and there, in suitable places forming dense thickets; used by the Germans in Ceara rubber plantations as a contour plant (Greenway); 0–1300 m.
Distribution
K7 T3 U2 U4 Z widespread in the tropics and subtropics, probably native only in the New World
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub/Tree
[ILDIS]

Uses

Use Environmental
Environmental uses.
[UPFC]

Use
Environmental
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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