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Albizia obbiadensis

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Identification
Albizia obbiadensis (Chiov.) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Acacia nervosula Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Albizia obbiadensis
  • Acacia obbiadensis
  • Acacia nervosula

Flora

Entry for ALBIZIA obbiadensis (Chiov.) Brenan [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
ALBIZIA obbiadensis (Chiov.) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1963);. type: C1, “Biomal” near “Obbia”, Stefanini & Puccioni 553 (FT holo.).
Acacia obbiadensis Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1929);. type: C1, “Biomal” near “Obbia”, Stefanini & Puccioni 553 (FT holo.).
Acacia nervosula Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1932);. type: S2, Mogadishu, Senni 194 (FT holo.).
Information
Small tree or shrub; young branchlets glabrous or almost so. Leaves from spirally and rather closely arranged cushions; petiole 1–5 mm long; pinnae 1 pair; leaflets 4–8 pairs, oblong, 2–6 x 1–2.5 mm, obtuse at the apex, glabrous above, appressed puberulous to glabrous beneath; venation fairly prominent beneath, with midrib running close to upper margin. Heads on 15–25 mm long peduncles. Flowers ?cream; staminal tube about as long as the corolla. Pod oblong, flat, with sinuate margin, 6.5–9(–12) x 2–2.5 cm, densely puberulous, inconspicuously veined, purplish brown, apparently indehiscent. Seeds c. 9 mm long, with a very small, transversely elliptic areole.
Range
C1; S2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
50–275 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 4163; Thulin & Warfa 4556; Gillett, Hemming & Watson 22457.
Notes
Bilcil, lebi (Som.). This is a very distinct endemic of uncertain affinity. Good flowering material is still wanting.

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