Description ⁴

Small tree with distinctly ascending branches. Young branches robust, densely covered in tufted leaves and grey velvety hairs; Spines paired, mostly straight, c. 1.5 cm but some pairs long and somewhat recurved. Leaves tufted on woody cushions, up 6 × 4 cm with 5-9 pairs of pinnae, bearing many small, finely pubescent leaflets. Flowers in axillary clusters of spherical heads, white. Pod 8-15 cm, sickle-shaped, narrow, rounded, not woody, covered in grey velvety hairs, dehiscent.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Marco Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=14&id=25
2. (c) JMK, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Acacia_gerrardii%2C_habitus%2C_Walter_Sisulu_NBT.jpg
3. (c) JMK, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Acacia_gerrardii%2C_bloeiwyses%2C_Walter_Sisulu_NBT.jpg
4. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19237795

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