| Dicotyledon | Literature for Acacia koa
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Fabaceae -- The Pea Family | Bibliography |
| Acacia koa | |
Common name(s): koa, koa`oha, koai`a, koai`e |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Trees up to 35 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves reduced to phyllodes, these narrowly elliptic and usually strongly falcate, 7.5-26 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm wide, bipinnately compound leaves of various sizes present at apex of small phyllodes in sapling stages. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers ca. 2 mm long, in heads ca. 8 mm in diameter (excl. stamens), these few together in axillary racemes or sometimes aggregated into terminal leafy panicles, peduncles ca. 1 cm long; corolla cream-colored; stamens curled, more than twice as long as corolla; ovary pubescent. |
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| Fruit |
Pods flattened, oblong, 8-30 cm long, 0.8-2.5 cm wide, sutures straight or occasionally constricted between some of the seeds. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds ellipsoid, laterally flattened, either transversely or longitudinally arranged, 6-12 mm long, 4-7 mm wide. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 26*, 52* |
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