Fabaceae
Parkinsonia

Parkinsonia raimondoi Brenan

First published in Kew Bull. 35: 563 (1980)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Somalia. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Type
S2, Mogadishu, Raimondo 1 (K holo.).
Morphology General Habit
Shrub or small tree, 2–6 m tall, with slender branches, armed with very short stipular spines at the nodes
Morphology Leaves
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
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes up to 20 cm long, glabrous or almost so
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals 4 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals yellow; upper one obovate, 8 x 3 mm, the others oblanceolate, 7 x 2 mm
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods narrowly elliptic, 7–12 x 1.2–2 cm, beaked, attenuate-stipitate, 1–3-seeded; valves fairly stiff, closely longitudinally veined
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds somewhat compressed, ellipsoid-oblong, 9–10 x 6–7 mm, black.
Distribution
C1, 2; S2 not known elsewhere.
Ecology
Altitude up to c. 200 m.
Vernacular
Kirkiri, reer soma gale (Somali).
[FSOM]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/34497/9867738

Conservation
NT - near threatened
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0