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Acacia verek

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Name

Identification
Acacia senegal (L.) Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Acacia verek Guill.&Perr. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia senegal
  • Acacia verek
  • Acacia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for ACACIA Senegal var. senegal [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 Senegal var. senegal [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Mimosa senegal L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Sp. Pl.: 521 (1753)
Acacia verek Guill. & Perr. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Fl. Seneg. Tent. 1: 245, t. 56 (1832); Oliv., F.T.A. 2: 342 (1871), nom. illegit. Type: from Senegal (P, syn.)
Acacia virchowiana Vatke & Hildebr. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 30: 275 (1880), pro parte, quoad fol. et flor. tantum. Type: Kenya, Teita District, Voi R. and elsewhere, Hildebrandt 2486 (?B, holo. †, K, iso.!)
Acacia campanulata Hochst.” [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], T.S.K.: 69 (1936)
Acacia somalensis [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], [sensu T.T.C.L.: 330 (1949), non Vatke; spec. cit. Zimmermann 7006 est A. senegal ad var. leiorhachidem vergens, Zimmermann 7007 est A. senegal var. leiorhachis ]
Acacia thomasii [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], [sensu T.T.C.L.: 330 (1949), non Harms; spec. cit. Greenway 4505 est A. senegal var. leiorhachis ]
Acacia senegal (Guill. & Perr.) Roberty var. verek [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Candollea 11: 156 (1948)
Information
Tree 3–12 m. high; crown apparently variable, flat and spreading, or umbrella-shaped, or lax and rounded. Twigs dull grey to grey-brown or purplish-grey, ultimately often minutely flaking, striate and lenticellate.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–7; T1–6, 8 widespread in tropical Africa, extending southwards to Zululand
Altitude range
120–1680 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District Oropoi valley, June-July 1930, Liebenberg 147 (Field No. 292)!;KENYA Machakos District Mua Hills, 2 Mar. 1953, Trump 27!;KENYA Masai District 37 km. S. of Kajiado on the Namanga road, 30 Jan. 1952, Trapnell 2204!TANGANYIKA Musoma, 1933, Emson 329!TANGANYIKA Moshi District (or? in Kenya) Himo R. - Taveta road, 25 Jan. 1936, Greenway 4505!TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa/Kilosa District Chakwale, 15 June 1938, Hornby 945!UGANDA Acholi District Chua, Kitgum, 10 Nov. 1945, A. S. Thomas 4338!;UGANDA Mbale District N. Bugishu, Cheptui, 10 Oct. 1933, Tothill 2241!;UGANDA Bunyoro District Butiaba escarpment, 2 July 1951, Trapnell 2147!

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