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Acacia rovumae

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Name

Identification
Acacia rovumae Oliv. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia rovumae

Flora

Entry for ACACIA rovumae Oliv. [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 rovumae Oliv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1871).
ACACIA macalusoi Mattei [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1908);. type: S3, “Giumbo”, Macaluso 65 (PAL, fruiting part, lecto.).
Information
Large tree to 30 m tall; young branchlets lenticellate, shortly pubescent. Prickles in pairs, spreading, straight or slightly curved. Leaves: pinnae 5–9 pairs; leaflets (9–)13–31 pairs, 4–8 x 1.5–2(–3.5) mm, oblong, puberulous, especially beneath, to subglabrous. Flowers yellowish-white in 6–10 cm long spikes. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, puberulous. Corolla 2–3 mm long. Pods straight or almost so, dark reddish-brown, 7–15 x 1.7–2.5 cm, glabrous, rather thick and apparently indehiscent.
Range
S3
Altitude range
30–50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS/86/98; Senni 135, 152; Hassan 104.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Madagascar
Notes
Dambal, makon-gowey (Som.).

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