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Acacia pentagona

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Fabales > Family: Fabaceae > Genus: Acacia

Acacia pentagona Acacia pentagona

Acacia pentagona, Moribane Forest, Mozambique. [photos Stefaan Dondeyne ©, Flora of Mozambique]

Acacia pentagona

Acacia pentagona, edge of camp site, Chirinda Forest, Zimbabwe. [photo Bart Wursten ©, Flora of Zimbabwe]

Acacia pentagona Acacia pentagona

Acacia pentagona, edge of camp site, Chirinda Forest, Zimbabwe. [photo Bart Wursten ©, Flora of Zimbabwe]

Acacia pentagona, slopes below Nhandore peak, Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique. [photo Stefaan Dondeyne ©, Flora of Mozambique]

Native from Sierra Leone to Sudan and south to Angola, eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique, as well as in Mozambique.

Ecological relationships in southern Africa

See also Ecological relationships of Acacia species in southern Africa.

Herbivores

List of Lepidoptera from Kroon (1999).

Links

References

  • Kroon, D.M. 1999. Lepidoptera of Southern Africa. Host-plants and other Associations. A Catalogue. Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, South Africa.