Tree up to 20 m high with rounded crown; young branchlets glabrous to pubescent, hairs often yellowish. Prickles in pairs, 1–7 mm long, hooked downwards or almost straight. Leaves: pinnae (3–)4–8(–10) pairs; leaflets (2–)5–23 pairs, 3–25 x (0.75–)1–12.5 mm. Flowers yellowish-white in (2–)3–12 cm long spikes. Calyx 1.5–2.75 mm long. Corolla 2–3.75 mm long. Pods straight or almost so, dehiscent, (5–)8–18 x (1.8–)2–3.5 cm, transversely veined, glabrous or nearly so. Seeds subcircular, compressed, 8–11 mm in diam.; areole c. 5–6 x 4 mm.
Range
S3 (Bu’aale) widespread from S Ethiopia southwards to Mozambique.
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 86/29.
Notes
A. goetzei has not previously been reported from Somalia. The only specimen seen is sterile and the identification is somewhat uncertain. A. goetzei is currently subdivided into two subspecies, subsp. goetzei and subsp. microphylla Brenan, both known from Kenya. With its fairly large leaflets the Somali specimen belongs to subsp. goetzei, although prickles are present on the leaf-rhachis.
