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Parkinsonia raimondoi Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
Parkinsonia raimondoi Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1980);. type: S2, Mogadishu, Raimondo 1 (K holo.).
Information
Shrub or small tree, 2–6 m tall, with slender branches, armed with very short stipular spines at the nodes. Leaves with 2(–4) pairs of pinnae; leaflets 3–9 pairs in lower pinnae and many pairs in the much elongated upper pinnae, obovate, 5–12 x 3–6 mm, emarginate, puberulous. Racemes up to 20 cm long, glabrous or almost so. Sepals 4 mm long. Petals yellow; upper one obovate, 8 x 3 mm, the others oblanceolate, 7 x 2 mm. Pods narrowly elliptic, 7–12 x 1.2–2 cm, beaked, attenuate-stipitate, 1–3-seeded; valves fairly stiff, closely longitudinally veined. Seeds somewhat compressed, ellipsoid-oblong, 9–10 x 6–7 mm, black.
Range
C1, 2; S2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
up to c. 200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen 4311; Rossitto s.n.; Thulin 4135.
Notes
Kirkiri, reer soma gale (Som.).

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
Parkinsonia raimondoi Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1980);. type: S2, Mogadishu, Raimondo 1 (K holo.).
Information
Shrub or small tree, 2–6 m tall, with slender branches, armed with very short stipular spines at the nodes. Leaves with 2(–4) pairs of pinnae; leaflets 3–9 pairs in lower pinnae and many pairs in the much elongated upper pinnae, obovate, 5–12 x 3–6 mm, emarginate, puberulous. Racemes up to 20 cm long, glabrous or almost so. Sepals 4 mm long. Petals yellow; upper one obovate, 8 x 3 mm, the others oblanceolate, 7 x 2 mm. Pods narrowly elliptic, 7–12 x 1.2–2 cm, beaked, attenuate-stipitate, 1–3-seeded; valves fairly stiff, closely longitudinally veined. Seeds somewhat compressed, ellipsoid-oblong, 9–10 x 6–7 mm, black.
Range
C1, 2; S2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
up to c. 200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen 4311; Rossitto s.n.; Thulin 4135.
Notes
Kirkiri, reer soma gale (Som.).

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
Parkinsonia raimondoi Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1980);. type: S2, Mogadishu, Raimondo 1 (K holo.).
Information
Shrub or small tree, 2–6 m tall, with slender branches, armed with very short stipular spines at the nodes. Leaves with 2(–4) pairs of pinnae; leaflets 3–9 pairs in lower pinnae and many pairs in the much elongated upper pinnae, obovate, 5–12 x 3–6 mm, emarginate, puberulous. Racemes up to 20 cm long, glabrous or almost so. Sepals 4 mm long. Petals yellow; upper one obovate, 8 x 3 mm, the others oblanceolate, 7 x 2 mm. Pods narrowly elliptic, 7–12 x 1.2–2 cm, beaked, attenuate-stipitate, 1–3-seeded; valves fairly stiff, closely longitudinally veined. Seeds somewhat compressed, ellipsoid-oblong, 9–10 x 6–7 mm, black.
Range
C1, 2; S2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
up to c. 200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen 4311; Rossitto s.n.; Thulin 4135.
Notes
Kirkiri, reer soma gale (Som.).
Parkinsonia raimondoi Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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