Entry for ACACIA somalensis Vatke [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 somalensisVatke [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1880);. type: N2, near “Meid”, Hildebrandt 1396 (?W holo. not seen, BM K iso.).
Information
Shrub to 3 m high; young branchlets reddish or reddish-brown, glabrous; internodes c. 0.5 cm long. Prickles solitary, straight and ascending or hooked downwards. Leaves small; pinnae 1 pair; leaflets 2–3 pairs, 2.5–4.5(–5) x 1.75–2.5(–3) mm, obovate-oblong, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers cream, in 2.5–3.5 cm long spikes. Calyx 1.5–2.2 mm long. Corolla 2.5–3.2 mm long. Pods straight, dehiscent, 2.5–3.5(–5) x 1.4–1.8 cm, dark reddish-brown, transversely veined, glabrous.
