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ACACIA sarcophylla Chiov. [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 sarcophylla Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1929);. type: N3, near “Hordio”, Puccioni & Stefanini 630 (FT holo.). Fig. 205.
Information
Shrub or spindly tree to 4 m high; young branchlets with epidermis white, cracking and falling off to expose a pale greyish-brown inner layer, glabrous or almost so. Stipular spines straight, spreading, up to 3.5 cm long. Leaves glabrous or almost so; pinnae 1–2 pairs; leaflets 2–3 pairs, 2.5–7.5 x 1.75–4 mm, obovate-oblong to obovate, thick and ± leathery. Flowers creamy-white, in heads; peduncles 0.4–1(–2.5) cm long, densely pubescent, with involucel in lower half. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, lobes pubescent. Corolla 2–2.5 mm long, with pubescent lobes. Pods straight or slightly curved, 6–11 x 0.7–1 cm, not winged, with the valves constricted between the seeds, brown, densely pubescent, longitudinally veined. Seeds subglobose or ellipsoid, 5.5–7 x 4–5 mm, minutely wrinkled; areole 4.5–6 x 3–4 mm.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
0–1200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 1584; Gillett 23038; Thulin & Warfa 5509.
Distribution (external)
Abd al Kuri
Socotra
Notes
Gumar, wawara (Som.). A. sarcophylla has a garlic smell, like the related A. oerfota.
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 sarcophylla Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1929);. type: N3, near “Hordio”, Puccioni & Stefanini 630 (FT holo.). Fig. 205.
Information
Shrub or spindly tree to 4 m high; young branchlets with epidermis white, cracking and falling off to expose a pale greyish-brown inner layer, glabrous or almost so. Stipular spines straight, spreading, up to 3.5 cm long. Leaves glabrous or almost so; pinnae 1–2 pairs; leaflets 2–3 pairs, 2.5–7.5 x 1.75–4 mm, obovate-oblong to obovate, thick and ± leathery. Flowers creamy-white, in heads; peduncles 0.4–1(–2.5) cm long, densely pubescent, with involucel in lower half. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, lobes pubescent. Corolla 2–2.5 mm long, with pubescent lobes. Pods straight or slightly curved, 6–11 x 0.7–1 cm, not winged, with the valves constricted between the seeds, brown, densely pubescent, longitudinally veined. Seeds subglobose or ellipsoid, 5.5–7 x 4–5 mm, minutely wrinkled; areole 4.5–6 x 3–4 mm.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
0–1200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 1584; Gillett 23038; Thulin & Warfa 5509.
Distribution (external)
Abd al Kuri
Socotra
Notes
Gumar, wawara (Som.). A. sarcophylla has a garlic smell, like the related A. oerfota.
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 sarcophylla Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], (1929);. type: N3, near “Hordio”, Puccioni & Stefanini 630 (FT holo.). Fig. 205.
Information
Shrub or spindly tree to 4 m high; young branchlets with epidermis white, cracking and falling off to expose a pale greyish-brown inner layer, glabrous or almost so. Stipular spines straight, spreading, up to 3.5 cm long. Leaves glabrous or almost so; pinnae 1–2 pairs; leaflets 2–3 pairs, 2.5–7.5 x 1.75–4 mm, obovate-oblong to obovate, thick and ± leathery. Flowers creamy-white, in heads; peduncles 0.4–1(–2.5) cm long, densely pubescent, with involucel in lower half. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, lobes pubescent. Corolla 2–2.5 mm long, with pubescent lobes. Pods straight or slightly curved, 6–11 x 0.7–1 cm, not winged, with the valves constricted between the seeds, brown, densely pubescent, longitudinally veined. Seeds subglobose or ellipsoid, 5.5–7 x 4–5 mm, minutely wrinkled; areole 4.5–6 x 3–4 mm.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
0–1200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 1584; Gillett 23038; Thulin & Warfa 5509.
Distribution (external)
Abd al Kuri
Socotra
Notes
Gumar, wawara (Som.). A. sarcophylla has a garlic smell, like the related A. oerfota.
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