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Acacia verugera

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Name

Identification
Acacia sieberiana DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Acacia verugera Schweinf. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia sieberiana
  • Acacia verugera
  • Acacia rehmanniana
  • Acacia siberiana
  • Acacia welwistchii

Flora

Entry for ACACIA sieberiana var. sieberiana [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 sieberiana var. sieberiana [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], ; F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 499 (1958)
ACACIA verugera Schweinf. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Linnaea 35: 340, t. 9, 10 (1867–8); Taub. in P.O.A. C: 195 (1895). Type: the Sudan, Kassala, by the R. Gasch, Schweinfurth 1963 (B, syn. †, EA, K, isosyn.!)
ACACIA purpurascens Vatke [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 30: 277 (1877); Bogdan in Nature in East Africa, ser. 2, No. 1: 14 (1949); T.S.K.: 70 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 335 (1949). Type: Kenya, near Mombasa, Hildebrandt 1938 (BM, K, iso.!)
Information
Crown with ascending branches, less spreading than in the following. Young branchlets glabrous or almost so.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K2, 5, 7; T2–6, 8
Altitude range
from near sea-level to 1220 m.
Distribution
KENYA Central Kavirondo District Alego, 31 Apr. 1944, Davidson 218 in Bally 4298!KENYA Mombasa, Feb. 1930, R. M. Graham 2281!TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa District Matamondo, 26 Nov. 1940, Hornby 2100!;TANGANYIKA Kilosa District Kidodi, Oct. 1952, Semsei 967!;TANGANYIKA Masasi District Likesse, 23 Mar. 1943, Gillman 1253!UGANDA West Nile District Rhino Camp, 27 Mar. 1936, Michelmore 1398! & Laropi, Eggeling 914 in F.H. 1260!;UGANDA Teso District Lake Kioga, Sambwa Peninsula, near Serere, 2 Mar. 1936, Michelmore 1206!;UGANDA Mengo District Gomba Madu, Mar. 1932, Eggeling 300 in F.H. 540!
Distribution (external)
; Senegal
Nigeria
French Cameroons
Belgian Congo
the Sudan
Ethiopia
Portuguese East Africa
Nyasaland
Notes
In Kenya and Tanganyika especially, the epidermis on the smaller twigs falls away quickly, exposing a yellow often very flaky surface, reminiscent of A. xanthophloea. This feature is shown by the type of A. purpurascens, but though the peeling is certainly less obvious in A. sieberiana var. sieberiana of Uganda and West Africa, there are no other differences, and it does not seem possible to draw any clear distinction between the two. Field observations are required to see if the bark of A. sieberiana shows any differences correlated with geography or climate.

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