Code
DIRCI
Growth form
Shrub
Biological cycle
Perennial / Vivacious
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Acacia cinerea (L.) Spreng. |
| synonym | Cailliea cinerea (L.) J.F.Macbr. |
| synonym | Desmanthus cinereus (L.) Willd. |
| synonym | Dichrostachys cinerea subsp. lugardae (N.E.Br.) Brenan & Brummitt |
| synonym | Dichrostachys cinerea subsp. paucijuga Miq. |
| synonym | Dichrostachys lugardae N.E.Br. |
| synonym | Dichrostachys platycarpa Welw. |
| synonym | Mimosa cinerea L. |
| synonym | Neptunia cinerea (L.) F.Muell. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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Global description
Dicrostachys cinerea is a shrub or bush with spiny branches, up to 6 m high, with brown bark consisting of numerous whitish lenticels. Leaves alternate, 3-10 cm long, with 10-15 pairs of pinnae. Leaflets numerous (10 to 30 pairs per pinnae), linear, obtuse, 3 to 6 mm long and 1 to 2 mm wide. Leaf spine cylindrical, pubescent and bearing a gland at each insertion. Inflorescence a short, two-coloured, pendant spike, 3-8 cm long at the end of a stalk 1-9 cm long. The lower flowers are sterile, pink or white, while the apical flowers are hermaphrodite with a long pistil and 10 yellow stamens. Corolla with linear petals 1.5-3 mm long. The fruit is a 4-7 cm long, brown to blackish glabrous pod at maturity, wavy, twisted. The pods are tightly packed in glomerules. Each pod contains 4-8 biconvex, elliptical to subcircular seeds, 4-6 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, pale beige, shiny.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
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Indonesia: Dichrostachys cinerea fruits from March to May.
South Africa: Dichrostachys cinerea fruits form May to September.
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Cyclicity
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Dichrostachys cinerea is a perennial and a vivacious species. It multiplies vegetatively in a very abundant way from root suckers. Any injury to the roots causes the development of suckers. It can produce 130 new stems from root suckers within a 15 m radius from the main trunk over 10 years. It also produces seeds.
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Ecology
Reunion: An exotic species which colonises the dry slopes at low and medium altitude on the dry west coast of the island, particularly in the region of Saint Leu, Etang Salé.
West Indies: Dichrostachys cinerea is an exotic species. It is a fast-growing pioneer species that colonises fields, wastelands, roadsides, meadows and various degraded environments.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
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Origin
Dichrostachys cinerea is native to Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India and South East Asia.
Worldwide distribution
This species has been introduced in different regions mainly as an ornamental plant or for erosion control. It was introduced in the Caribbean in the 1800s, in Cuba, Hispaniola, Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante and Martinique. In the Indian Ocean (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion), it was introduced to form thorny barriers for cattle.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Reunion: This species is mainly present in degraded natural environments where it forms very dense thickets and can become a weed in sugarcane crops when the latter is established on the west coast.
West Indies: Dichrostachys cinerea is a weed mainly present in sugarcane crops where its management requires long and costly weeding operations.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
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Global control
Mechanical control: Mechanical control of Dicrhostachys cinerea requires the complete removal and evacuation of all roots and root fragments from the field, as these have a very high capacity for suckering.
Biological control: A rust, Uredo deformis, has been identified in Sri Lanka as a potential biocontrol agent.
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/18119
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:492423-1
- Grossard, F., Le Bourgeois, T., Dumbardon-Martial, E. & Gervais, L. 2013. Adventilles - Guadeloupe & Martinique - Les adventices des Antilles françaises. Abymes, Guadeloupe, France, Les éditions du CTCS Guadeloupe. 195 p.
- Fournet, J. 2002. Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. Montpellier, France, Cirad, Gondwana éditions.
Information Listing > References
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/18119
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:492423-1
- Grossard, F., Le Bourgeois, T., Dumbardon-Martial, E. & Gervais, L. 2013. Adventilles - Guadeloupe & Martinique - Les adventices des Antilles françaises. Abymes, Guadeloupe, France, Les éditions du CTCS Guadeloupe. 195 p.
- Fournet, J. 2002. Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. Montpellier, France, Cirad, Gondwana éditions.
Images
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Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Dichrostachys%2520cinerea
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Dichrostachys |
| Species | Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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