mimosa epineux (Berhaut); gomme friable (the gum, Aubréville)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
(Hassaniya) sadra bed (Aub.) sedera el beïda (Aub.) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
dedera èl beida (JB) sadra bed (Aub.; JB) sadra bob (JB) sedera el beida (Aub.; JB) seyal (GR) tamat (JB) (SENEGAL, ARABIC (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
white galled acacia; white whistling thorn (E Africa); thirsty thorn; buffalo thorn (Malawi, Angus); the wood - shittim wood; the gum - talh, talha, suakim., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
ga-kósy ga-pεsyà = white spine (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
Flora
Entry for ACACIA seyal Del. [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 seyalDel. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1813). Fig. 197 H.
Information
Tree up to 9 m high with usually flattened crown; bark on trunk powdery, white to greenish yellow or orange red; young branchlets almost glabrous, epidermis reddish, conspicuously flaking off to expose a greyish or reddish powdery under-surface. Stipular spines up to 8 cm long, some sometimes basally inflated and fused into bilobed “ant-galls”. Leaves: pinnae 3–7 pairs; leaflets 11–20 pairs, 3–8 x 0.7–1.5 mm. Flowers bright yellow, in heads; involucel in lower half of peduncle, often subtending a few additional flowers. Calyx 2–2.5 mm long. Corolla 3.5–4 mm long. Pods ± falcate and constricted between the seeds, dehiscent, 7–20 x 0.5–0.9 cm, finely longitudinally veined, glabrous. Seeds elliptic, compressed, 7–9 x 4.5–5 mm; areole 5–6 x 2.5–3.5 mm.
