Entry for ACACIA leucospira Brenan [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 leucospiraBrenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1959);. type: C1, near “Galkayu”, Bond & Pechanec 65 (EA holo.).
Information
Spreading shrub to 1 m high and 2 m wide; bark near the ground yellow and papery; young branchlets densely clothed with a white woolly indumentum. Stipular spines 0.5–3.5 cm long, straight, spreading, woolly pubescent when young. Leaves densely woolly pubescent; pinnae 5–11 pairs; leaflets 6–14 pairs, 0.5–1 x 0.25–0.5 mm, so small and compressed that the pinnae resemble single linear crenulate leaflets. Flowers white, in heads; peduncles 0.7–1.2 cm long, woolly with the involucel near the base. Calyx ± 2 mm long, densely pubescent. Corolla ± 3 mm long, pubescent. Pods curved or spirally coiled, thick and hard, dehiscent, (7–)13–16 x 2–2.5 cm, densely covered by a white woolly indumentum. Seeds black, (11–)15–16 x (9–)12–14 mm, ± ellipsoid, minutely wrinkled, without an areole.
