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ACACIA moggii Thulin & Tardelli [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]

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
ACACIA moggii Thulin & Tardelli [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1988);. type: Somalia, C2, 320 km on the road between Muqdisho and Beled Weyne, Moggi, Tardelli & Warfa 54 (FT holo., B FT UPS iso.).
Information
Shrubby spreading tree to 6 m tall; young branchlets sparsely pilose, glabrescent. Prickles solitary, hooked downwards, 2–3 mm long. Leaves: petiole usually with a scarcely raised circular gland c. 0.2 mm in diam.; pinnae 1–2 pairs; leaflets 3–5 pairs, 1.5–2.5(–4) x 0.6–1.2(–1.5) mm, glabrous. Flowers with pink filaments, in 7–15-flowered, 12–18 mm long spikes. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long. Corolla c. 2.5 mm long. Pods straight, c. 20–30 x 12–17 mm, completely glabrous, red brown, 1–2-seeded.
Range
C2 (S of Beled Weyne) not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
150–325 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Puccioni & Stefanini 236; Rose Innes 705; Kuchar 16660.
ACACIA moggii Thulin & Tardelli [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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