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11: Auxiliary plants

Acacia confusa Merrill

LEGUMINOSAE - MIMOSOIDEAE

Acacia richii auct., non A. Gray, Racosperma confusum (Merrill) Pedley.

Philippines:ayangili, ualisen (Sambali). Vietnam: c[aa]y d[af]i loan t[uw][ow]ng t[uw].

Native to Taiwan and northern Philippines (Luzon, not clear whether indigenous, cultivated or naturalized); also cultivated in Thailand, Indo-China, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra and occasionally elsewhere.

Grown as a green manure, shade tree and fodder crop.

Tree, up to 10 m tall, trunk up to 1 m in diameter. Phyllodes alternate, linear-lanceolate, 6.5—10 cm x 5—9 mm, straight to slightly curved, usually with a hooked apex, leathery, glabrous, with 5 or more prominent, parallel veins. Inflorescence a globose head, 6—9 mm in diameter, single or paired in leaf axil; flowers numerous, pentamerous, yellow. Pod flat, linear, 4—10 cm x 7—10 mm, with 7—8 seeds. Acacia confusa is found on slopes and in dry forest at low altitudes. In Malaysia it is cultivated at 1000—1200 m altitude.

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M.S.M. Sosef & L.J.G. van der Maesen

Sosef, M.S.M. & van der Maesen, L.J.G., 1997. Acacia confusa Merrill. In: Faridah Hanum, I & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 11: Auxiliary plants. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea