Acacia seyal Delile
var. fistula (Schweinf.) Oliv.

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Photo: Rita Herbert

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Mumbwa District: Blue Lagoon National Park

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Mumbwa District: Blue Lagoon National park

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Mazabuka District, Nansenga.

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Mazabuka

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Rio Muacamula, Macomia District, Cabo Delgado.

Photo: Patricia Bingham
Lusaka

Synonyms:	Acacia fistula Schweinf.
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Status:	Native
Description:	A small tree to 9 m tall. The bark is smooth, consisting of a thin whitish or reddish-brown powdery covering, which rubs off to expose green succulent under bark. Typically branches in the lower 1 m or more are burned off, while the trunk remains unscarred. The paired spines are straight, white, and in var. fistula often fused and swollen at the base forming ant-galls. The flowers are in bright yellow globose heads. Pods linear-falcate, 7-22 cm long, more or less constricted between the seeds, hairless but with some sessile glands.
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Habitat:	Floodplain grassland on black cotton soils.
Altitude range:	20 - 1220 m
Flowering time:	Jun - Sep
Worldwide distribution:	Sudan and Somalia through eastern Africa to Mozambique, Malawi and the Kafue River basin in Zambia.
Mozambique distribution:	N
Growth form(s):	Tree.
Endemic status:
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Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Content last updated:	Sunday 21 August 2016
Literature:	Brenan, J.P.M. (1970). Mimosoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(1) Pages 88 - 89. Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 188. (Includes a picture).

Flora of Malawi: Acacia seyal var. fistula
Flora of Zambia: Acacia seyal var. fistula

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