MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH058 : Acacia linifolia (Vent.) Willd. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 138 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In open grasslands fields river beds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | white wattle, flax wattle | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Acacia linearis (J.C.Wendl.) J.F.Macbr. Racosperma linifolium (Vent.) Pedley Mimosa linearis J.C.Wendl. Mimosa linifolia Vent. Mimosa abietina (Willd.) Poir. Acacia abietina Willd. |
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| Description : | Erect or spreading shrub 1.5–4 m high; bark smooth or finely fissured, greyish; branchlets angled towards apices, finely ridged, glabrous or sometimes hairy. Phyllodes ± linear, ± straight, 2–5 cm long (range: 1.5–7 cm), 0.7–2.5 mm wide (rarely to 3 mm wide), usually glabrous except pulvinus and upper margin near base often sparsely minutely hairy (phyllodes sometimes finely hairy and glabrescent), midvein prominent, lateral veins obscure or not evident, apex acute with a mucro; 1 minute gland 5–15 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus 0.5–2 mm long. Inflorescences 5–17 in an axillary raceme; axis 2–5 cm long; peduncles 2–5 mm long, slender, glabrous or sometimes hairy; heads globose, 6–12-flowered, 4–5.5 mm diam., pale yellow to ± white. Pods straight or curved, ± flat except raised over seeds, ± straight-sided or barely constricted between seeds, often more deeply constricted between some seeds, 3–12 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, thinly leathery, glabrous, often ± pruinose; seeds longitudinal; funicle expanded towards seed. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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