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Acacia cheilanthifolia

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Name

Identification
Acacia cheilanthifolia Chiov. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia cheilanthifolia

Flora

Entry for ACACIA cheilanthifolia Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ACACIA cheilanthifolia Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1929);. types: N3 and C1, Puccioni & Stefanini 479, 509, 663, 762, 1010 (FT syn.).
ACACIA cheilanthifolia Chiov. var. hirtella [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Fl. Somala 1: 169 (1929);. type: N3, between “Dhur” and “Hossa Uein”, Puccioni & Stefanini 695 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub or small tree to 6 m tall, with a slender whip-like stem emerging from a cushion of basal vegetative branches, or sometimes a low shrub only; young branchlets reddish-brown, sparsely to densely puberulous; older twigs ashen to greyish-brown. Prickles in threes, the central one curved downwards and the two laterals ± upwards. Leaves: pinnae 3–8 pairs; leaflets 3–5 pairs, 1.5–5 x 1–2.5 mm, glabrous or puberulous. Flowers white, in up to 5 cm long spikes. Calyx up to 2 mm long. Corolla c. 3 mm long. Pods straight, dehiscent, 3–4.5 x 1–1.2 cm, yellowish to purplish brown, inconspicuously veined, puberulous.
Range
N2, 3; C1 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
80–800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 488; Gillett & Beckett 23441; Thulin & Warfa 5447.
Notes
Warwarood, wawara, wawaro (Som.). One of the syntypes of A. cheilanthifolia, Puccioni & Stefanini 479, is actually A. laeta. This specimen has therefore been excluded from the types cited above. Var. hirtella differs in having densely puberulous branchlets, leaves and inflorescences, but does not seem worthy of recognition.

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