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Mimosa cinerea

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Identification
Mimosa cinerea L. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce [family FABACEAE ]
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  • Dichrostachys cinerea
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Flora

Entry for DICHROSTACHYS cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn. [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
DICHROSTACHYS cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1834);
Mimosa cinerea L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1753). [type as above]
Mimosa glomerata Forssk. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1775);
DICHROSTACHYS glomerata (Forssk.) Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1915). [type as above]
DICHROSTACHYS cinerea Brenan & Brummitt subsp. argillicola [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., ser. 2, 39: 106 (1965);. type: S3, 34 km NW of Kismaayo, Bally 9506 (K holo.).
Information
Shrub or small tree, armed with spines terminating short lateral twigs. Leaves with (2–)4–19 pairs of pinnae; rhachis including petiole 0.5–20 cm long; leaflets (6–)9–41 pairs per pinna, linear to oblong, 1–11 x 0.3–4 mm. Inflorescences yellow in upper bisexual part, mauve, pink or white in neuter part, 2–5 cm long, pendent; peduncle 1–9 cm long. Calyx 0.6–1.25 mm long. Corolla 1.5–3 mm long. Staminodes 4–17 mm long. Pods clustered, 2–10 x 0.4–1.4(–2) cm, contorted, indehiscent.
Range
N1; C2; S1–3 widespread in tropical Africa, also in Arabia, tropical Asia and Australia.
Altitude range
30–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/73/86; Bally & Melville 15269; Elmi 470.
Notes
Dictar, dhiigtaar, godxantool, qurac (Som.). This variable species was subdivided into numerous subspecies and varieties by Brenan & Brummitt in Bol. Soc. Brot., ser. 2, 39: 77–115 (1965). One of these, subsp. argillicola with only 4–7 pairs of pinnae and not strongly coiled pods, was described with the type from Somalia. Today a much wider variation is known in Somalia and the application of the infraspecific names available is very difficult. The species is therefore here not formally subdivided. One of the most striking variants is the one preliminary described as D. sp. A by Brenan in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1959). This has only 2–3 pairs of pinnae with 6–11 pairs of leaflets and was previously only known from the Wajir area in E Kenya. This variant has now also been collected in S Somalia on sand near the Kenya border (Gillett & al. 25257).

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