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Acacia oerfota

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Identification
Acacia oerfota (Forssk.) Schweinf. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Loutfy Boulos, Acacia nubica Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Isotype of Acacia aucheri Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by James Henderson Ross,
Related name
  • Acacia oerfota
  • Acacia gorinii
  • Acacia sarcophylla
  • Acacia aucheri
  • Acacia papyracea
  • Acacia pterygocarpa
  • Acacia nubica

Flora

Entry for ACACIA oerfota (Forssk.) Schweinf. [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 oerfota (Forssk.) Schweinf. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1896);
Mimosa oerfota Forssk. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1775). Fig. 197 O. [type as above]
ACACIA nubica Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1842).
ACACIA pterygocarpa Hochst. ex Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1846).
ACACIA gorinii Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1932);. types: S3, Gorini 221, Senni 435 & 449 (FT syn.).
Information
Shrub 1–5 m high, branching from the base; young branchlets greyish-white to yellowish green, glabrous to spreading pubescent. Stipular spines straight or rarely curved, 0.4–1.7(–2.7) cm long. Leaves: pinnae (2–)3–7(–11) pairs; leaflets 5–16 pairs, 2.5–6(–9) x (0.5–)0.75–2.5 mm. Flowers whitish or greenish, in heads; peduncles 0.5–1.5 cm long, pubescent; involucel below or sometimes about middle of peduncle. Calyx 1.5–2.5 mm long, pubescent. Corolla up to 3.5 mm long, with the lobes conspicuously pubescent outside. Pods straight or sometimes slightly curved, 4–15 x 0.9–2.2 cm, with a narrow wing-like margin 1–3.5 mm wide, straw-coloured, shortly pubescent. Seeds globose or ellipsoid, 4.5–6.5 x 3.5–6 mm, shallowly and closely wrinkled; areole 4–5 x 3–3.5 mm.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
10–1350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Elmi 464; Gillett 22948; Thulin & Warfa 4651.
Distribution (external)
Egypt
Sudan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Arabia
Notes
gumar(Som.). For comments on nomenclature, see Wood in Kew Bull. 37: 451 (1983).

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