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Faidherbia
Faidherbia is a genus of fabaceous plants containing one species, Faidherbia albida, which was formerly widely included in the genus Acacia as Acacia albida. The species is native to Africa and the Middle East and has also been introduced to Pakistan and India. Common names include apple-ring acacia (their circular, indehiscent seed pods resemble apple rings), white acacia, and winter thorn. The South African name is ana tree.
Species
FamilyFabaceae
Native toAlgeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Egypt
Use: Faidherbia albida (Delile) A.Chev. (winter thorn ; see
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Infraspecific variability
- Description
- Distribution
- Ecology
- Uses
- Medicinal uses
- Cultural significance
- References
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Faidherbia is a genus of fabaceous plants containing one species, Faidherbia albida, which was formerly widely included in the genus Acacia as Acacia albida. The species is native to Africa and the Middle East and has also been introduced to Pakistan and India. Common names include apple-ring acacia (their circular, indehiscent seed pods resemble apple rings), white acacia, and winter thorn. The South African name is ana tree.
==Taxonomy== This species has been known as Acacia albida for a long time, and is often still known as such. Guinet (1969) in Pondicherry first proposed separating it into the genus Faidherbia, a genus erected during the previous century by Auguste Chevalier with this as the type species, seconded by the South African James Henderson Ross (1973) and the Senegalese legume botanist Nongonierma (1976, 1978), but authors continued to favour classification under Acacia as of 1997.