ACANL
Growth form
Tree
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Marshland
synonym | Acacia arabica (Lam.)Willd. |
synonym | Acacia scorpioides W.Wight |
synonym | Mimosa arabica Lam. |
synonym | Mimosa nilotica L. |
synonym | Mimosa scorpioides L. |
Creoles and pidgins; French-based |
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Global description
Acacia nilotica is a small tree 4 to 10 m tall. Young stems pubescent and whitish, darker when old. Leaves alternate, compound, bipinnate, with 3 to 10 pairs of opposite pinnae, 2 to 3 cm long, each with 10 to 20 pairs of oblong leaflets, 5 to 8 mm long and 1.5 mm wide with apex obtuse. Presence of a gland under the base of the first pair of pinnae. A pair of strait and white thorns (spiny stipules) at the base of each leaf 0.6 to 5 cm long. Inflorescences in yellow head, long pedunculate, with 2 small bracteoles in the middle of the peduncle. The fruit is a linear, slightly curved, flattened pod of a slightly hairy greenish-gray color measuring 10 to 15 cm long and 1 cm wide. It is heavily strangled between each seed.
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Spines | Pod | Species |
Strait, short (2 (-3) cm) and brown | Subcylindrical, 4-10 cm, dark colored | Acacia farnesiana |
Strait, long (0,5 - 10 cm) and white | Tightly oblong, compressed between seeds, tomentose, and white-grey | Acacia nilotica |
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Local control
New Caledonia: Contamination of uninvaded pastures should be prevented by controlling movement of livestock, avoiding areas with mature pods. Herds from infested areas may stay in a quarantine plot. The use of sheep allows the seeds to be destroyed by chewing. To limit the spread, stands must eliminate along the rivers by pulling down the adults with heavy equipment or by chemical treatment (triclopyr) when the leaves are present (brushing the cut stumps, on cut bark, injection around the trunk every 8 cm). On young stands, spraying (repeated once) is carried out on 2-month-old resprouts after gyrogrinding (fluroxypyr or tryclopyr + picloram).
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Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Acacia%2520nilotica
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Acacia |
Species | Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile |