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-Var. leiorhachisBrenan,gomdoring, is slender, upright tree to 6-8 m with
few erect branches, orange-brown corky bark, flower cluster axis hairless, and
pods with rounded tip. East and South Africa, in dry bush in eastern and
northern Transvaal.
-Var. rostrata Brenan, geelhaak or three-thorned acacia, is smaller shrub
seldom more than 4 m high, usually branching from base; grayish trunk becoming
somewhat flaking with age, flat-spreading crown of 'many lightcolored
interlacing branches, flower cluster axis hairy, and pods ending in
sharp slender point. Widespread in scrub and bush from Mozambique west to
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia.
References
Brenan, J. P. M. 1953. Kew Bulletin 1953: 97-100.
Cheema, M. S. Z. A., and S. A. Qadir. 1973. Autecology of Acacia senegal (L.)
Willd. Vegetatio 27(1-3): 131-162, illus.
Carr, J. D. 1976. The South African acacias. Illus. Conservation Press (PTY)
Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa. 323 pp.
Coates Palgrave, Keith. 1977. Trees of Southern Africa. Illus. C. Struik, Cape
Town Johannesburg, South Africa. 959 pp. (pp. 250.251, map used here).
Sahni, K. C. 1968. Important trees of the northern Sudan. Illus. Forestry Research
and Education Centre, Khartoum, United Nations Development Programme,
and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natinns. 138
pp. (pp. 54-55, fig. 22, drawing used here).
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