Senegalia schweinfurthii (Brenan & Exell) Seigler & Ebinger

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/146211903/146211905

Conservation

LC - least concern

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit

Scandent shrub to 12 m., or sprawling, or a small spreading tree.

Morphology Branches

Young branchlets puberulous and glandular, olive-green or pale brown, later olive-brown.

Morphology General Prickles

Prickles deflexed, scattered, arising from brownish longitudinal bands darker than the intervening yellowish to grey ones.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves:petiole 2.6–5.5 cm. long, with a gibbous gland 1–1.8 mm. long and 0.5 mm. wide; pinnae 9–17 pairs, 3.5–7 cm. long; glands on rhachis between the top 1–3 pairs; leaflets numerous, linear or linear-oblong, 0.8–2 mm. wide, margins ciliolate with whitish appressed hairs, midrib nearer one margin at base.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers white or palest yellow, in heads 8–12 mm. in diameter in ± pyramidal panicles.

Morphology Leaves Stipules

Stipules at base of peduncles small, 0.3–1.2 mm. wide, inconspicuous, soon caducous, not subcordate at base.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx eglandular outside.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods (Fig. 15/27, p. 66) coriaceous or subcoriaceous, oblong, ± transversely plicate and umbonate over the seeds, 9.5–17 cm. long, 1–2.9 cm. wide, margins not strongly thickened.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds blackish or dark brown, smooth, elliptic, 9–11 mm. long, 6.5–8 mm. wide; areole largish, 6–8 mm. long and 3–5 mm. wide.

Leguminosae, J.P.M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 3:1. 1970

Morphology General Habit

Scandent shrub to 12 m., or sprawling, or a small spreading tree; young branchlets olive-green or pale-brown, later olive-brown, puberulous and glandular.

Morphology General Prickles

Prickles deflexed, scattered, arising from brownish longitudinal bands darker than the intervening yellowish to grey ones.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves: petiole (1·5)2·6-6·5 cm. long, with a gibbous gland 1-2 x 0·5-1 mm.; pinnae 9-17 pairs, 3·5-7 cm. long; glands on rhachis between the top 1-3 pairs; leaflets numerous, (0·8)1-2(2·5) mm. wide, linear or linear-oblong, margins ciliolate with whitish appressed hairs; midrib nearer one margin at the base.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers white or palest yellow, in heads 8-12 mm. in diam. in ± pyramidal panicles.

Morphology Leaves Stipules

Stipules at base of peduncles small, 0·3-1·2 mm. wide, inconspicuous, soon caducous, not subcordate at the base.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx eglandular outside.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods 9·5-19 x 1-2·9 cm., coriaceous or subcoriaceous, oblong, ± transversely plicate and umbonate over the seeds, margins not strongly thickened.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds blackish or dark-brown, 9-11 x 6·5-8 mm., smooth, elliptic; areole largish, 6-8 x 3-5 mm.

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Sudanian woodland, Zambezian woodland

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Climbing/Not climbing, Shrub/Tree