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Acacia zizyphispina

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Identification
Acacia zizyphispina Chiov. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Acacia zizyphispina

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Entry for ACACIA zizyphispina Chiov. [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 zizyphispina Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1929);. types: C2, between “Garass-Hebla-Aden” and “Jesomma”, Puccioni & Stefanini 152 (FT syn.), and between “Avorrei” and “Bulo Burti”, Puccioni & Stefanini 171 (FT syn.). Fig. 197 F.
ACACIA impervia Gilliland [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1951).
Information
Shrub up to 3 m high; young branchlets dark reddish brown, glabrous or almost so. Prickles in threes, the central one strongly hooked downwards, the two laterals strongly curved upwards. Leaves: pinnae 2–5 pairs; leaflets 1–3(–4) pairs, obliquely obovate, 8–19 x 5–13 mm, minutely appressed puberulous on both surfaces or glabrous. Flowers in up to 5 cm long spikes. Calyx up to 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Corolla up to 4 mm long. Pods (4–)4.5–9.3 x (2–)3.2–4.8 cm, dehiscent, yellowish brown to purplish, apically rounded, valves thin, ± crinkly, transversely veined, glabrous.
Range
C1, 2; S2
Altitude range
100–700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4629; Gillett & Beckett 23328; Hemming 1429.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
Notes
Cadaad, cidi-god (Som.). The inland type race of A. zizyphispina has puberulous leaves and fairly large pods while the more coastal forms have glabrous leaves and smaller (c. 4–6 x 2–3 cm), less crinkly pods (e. g. Thulin & Warfa 4174 from near Balcad in S2). Further studies may show that the coastal race is distinct enough to warrant a name.

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