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ACACIA xanthophloea Benth. [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 xanthophloea Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1875).
Information
Tree 3–30 m tall; bark on trunk yellowish, becoming powdery; branchlets glabrous, outer layer soon flaking off to expose greenish-yellow inner layer. Stipular spines in pairs, 1–8.5 cm long. Leaves glabrous or almost so; pinnae (1–)3–6(–8) pairs; leaflets 8–17 pairs, 2.5–6.5 x 0.75–1.75 mm. Flowers yellow, white or purplish (colour not known in Somalia) in heads; peduncles 0.8–2.9 cm long, with involucel basal or in the lower half. Calyx 1–1.7 mm long. Corolla 2.2–3.5 mm long. Pods straight or slightly curved, brown, 3–13.5 x 0.7–1.4 cm, often irregularly constricted between some of the seeds, indehiscent, valves thin, reticulate-veined, glabrous or almost so.
Range
N2, 3 Kenya and southwards to NE South Africa.
Altitude range
600–1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 6212; Fagg & Styles 60; Collenette 324 (sterile).
Notes
Maraa-cad (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
ACACIA xanthophloea Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1875).
Information
Tree 3–30 m tall; bark on trunk yellowish, becoming powdery; branchlets glabrous, outer layer soon flaking off to expose greenish-yellow inner layer. Stipular spines in pairs, 1–8.5 cm long. Leaves glabrous or almost so; pinnae (1–)3–6(–8) pairs; leaflets 8–17 pairs, 2.5–6.5 x 0.75–1.75 mm. Flowers yellow, white or purplish (colour not known in Somalia) in heads; peduncles 0.8–2.9 cm long, with involucel basal or in the lower half. Calyx 1–1.7 mm long. Corolla 2.2–3.5 mm long. Pods straight or slightly curved, brown, 3–13.5 x 0.7–1.4 cm, often irregularly constricted between some of the seeds, indehiscent, valves thin, reticulate-veined, glabrous or almost so.
Range
N2, 3 Kenya and southwards to NE South Africa.
Altitude range
600–1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 6212; Fagg & Styles 60; Collenette 324 (sterile).
Notes
Maraa-cad (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
ACACIA xanthophloea Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1875).
Information
Tree 3–30 m tall; bark on trunk yellowish, becoming powdery; branchlets glabrous, outer layer soon flaking off to expose greenish-yellow inner layer. Stipular spines in pairs, 1–8.5 cm long. Leaves glabrous or almost so; pinnae (1–)3–6(–8) pairs; leaflets 8–17 pairs, 2.5–6.5 x 0.75–1.75 mm. Flowers yellow, white or purplish (colour not known in Somalia) in heads; peduncles 0.8–2.9 cm long, with involucel basal or in the lower half. Calyx 1–1.7 mm long. Corolla 2.2–3.5 mm long. Pods straight or slightly curved, brown, 3–13.5 x 0.7–1.4 cm, often irregularly constricted between some of the seeds, indehiscent, valves thin, reticulate-veined, glabrous or almost so.
Range
N2, 3 Kenya and southwards to NE South Africa.
Altitude range
600–1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 6212; Fagg & Styles 60; Collenette 324 (sterile).
Notes
Maraa-cad (Som.).
ACACIA xanthophloea Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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