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Acacia nigrescens

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 nigrescens Acacia nigrescens

Acacia nigrescens, along road from entrance gate to Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. [photo Bart Wursten ©, Flora of Mozambique]

Acacia nigrescens, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. [photo Bart Wursten ©, Flora of Zimbabwe]

Acacia nigrescens
Acacia nigrescens Acacia nigrescens

Acacia nigrescens, along road from entrance gate to Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. [photos Bart Wursten ©, Flora of Mozambique]

Acacia nigrescens Acacia nigrescens

Acacia nigrescens, road to Chisumbanje, Save Valley, Zimbabwe. [photo Petra Ballings ©, Flora of Zimbabwe]

A Knob thorn (Acacia nigrescens) in full flower above Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis), on the bank of the the Shingwedzi River, Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Ecological relationships in southern Africa

See also Ecological relationships of Acacia species in southern Africa.

Herbivores

List of Lepidoptera from Kroon (1999).

Charaxes phaeus

Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae

Larvae eat the leaves.

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References

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