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Acacia glauca

Redwood

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Redwood, Wild Dividivi; French Amourette

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Caribbean (Curacao - Lesser Antilles); EXOTIC EXOTIC Fiji, Cooks (Ma‘uke)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; S.Group (Mauke only - localised; ?MT); Land, lowlands, horticultural

KEY FEATURES: Shrub or small tree to 4m. Without thorns. LEAVES bipinnate (never with phyllodes), PINNA 4-8 pairs (each to 7cm) with LEAFLETS 10-25 pairs to 7x3mm, tip obtuse, base obtuse and asymmetrical. FLOWERS on stalk to 2cm, head wide-ovoid. FRUIT flat pod, 6x1cm, brown; 5-8 transverse seeds each 4x3mm.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
-	-	-	++	+?	-	-	-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Acacia glauca (L.)
SYNONYMS: Acacia curassavica (Killip)Stehle; Acaciella curassavica Killip; Mimosa glauca Linnaeus [non Acacia glauca Willd. 1806]

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ROSIDAE; Fabales (Legumes); MIMOSACEAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Mauke: specimens, 2/2002, Tim Flynn ID as Acacia curassavica noting that this might be reduced to a synonym of Acacia glauca, updated to Acacia glauca G.McCormack 2006/5 based on GRIN (www.ars-grin.gov).

References:
p.5/70 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova

Data Update History (information):
zB02, zupB06a, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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