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Acacia subalata

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Identification
Acacia subalata Vatke [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Acacia nilotica Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by W. Gilges, 1955
Related name
  • Acacia subalata
  • Acacia calamifolia
  • Acacia nilotica

Flora

Entry for ACACIA nilotica (Vatke) Brenan subsp. subalata [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
ACACIA nilotica (Vatke) Brenan subsp. subalata [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in K.B. 1957: 85 (1957). Type: Kenya, Teita District, Ndi, Hildebrandt 2589 (B?, holo. †)
ACACIA subalata Vatke [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 30: 276 (1880); P.O.A. C: 194, t. 21, fig. D (1895); Harms in N.B.G.B. 4: 203, fig. 4 (1906); L.T.A.: 850 (1930); I.T.U.: 117, fig. 36/1 (1940) & ed. 2, 215, fig. 48/1 (1952); T.T.C.L.: 334 (1949), pro parte; Bogdan in Nature in E. Afr., ser. 2, No. 1: 13 (1949)
ACACIA taitensis Vatke [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 30: 278 (1880). Type: Kenya, Teita District, Ndi, Hildebrandt 2591 (? B, holo. †). A doubtful synonym.
ACACIA arabica [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], [sensu L.T.A.: 849 (1930); T.S.K.: 69 (1936), saltem pro parte, non (Lam.) Willd.]
ACACIA benthami [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], [sensu T.S.K.: 69 (1936), saltern pro parte, non Rochebr. sensu stricto]
ACACIA sp. nr. abyssinica” [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], T.S.K.: 70 (1936), probably; the specimen, Graham V322 in F.H. 1822 is certainly A. nilotica, but lacks pods.
Information
Young branchlets densely pubescent to subtomentose. Pods (Fig. 16/37B p. 67) not necklace-like, oblong, densely and persistently subtomentose all over, often rather wide (1.3–2.2 cm.), their margins straight or slightly crenate.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; K1–4, 6; T1–5, 7 doubtfully also in the Sudan
Altitude range
15–1830 m.
Distribution
KENYA Rift Valley District Kamasia, 15 July 1945, Bally 4541!;KENYA Machakos District below Mua Hills, 22 Jan. 1952, Trapnell 2201!;KENYA Masai District Bakitabuk near Narok, 29 Nov. 1948, Vesey-FitzGerald 172!TANGANYIKA Shinyanga District Ngunga, 6 July 1949, Doggett 115!;TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Mbulumbul, 16 July 1943, Greenway 6808!TANGANYIKA Nzega, 14 June 1954, F. G. Smith 1180!TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa, 28 Aug. 1930, Greenway 2479!UGANDA Acholi District Agoro, Chua, 12 Nov. 1945, A. S. Thomas 4359!;UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, 27 Oct. 1939, A. S. Thomas 3074!;UGANDA Mbale District Greek River Camp, Bugishu, Jan. 1936, Eggeling 2502!
Notes
A common and not very variable plant. The two most worthy extremes are the following: Bally 4633! from Kenya, Baringo District, Lake Hannington, Kamasia, with neatly falcate pods and shorter indumentum than usual; and Gillett 12570! & 13047! both from Kenya, Northern Frontier Province, Dandu, with unusually small flower-heads 6–8 mm. in diameter and a rather crenate-margined pod only 1.2–1.3 cm. wide. B. D. Burtt 1793! from Tanganyika, Dodoma District, Kilimatinde, has similar pods up to 1.4 cm. wide. Gillett’s specimens carry the interesting comment that, unlike most acacias, this species keeps sporadically in flower for a long time.

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