Fabaceae
Senegalia

Senegalia hereroensis (Engl.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 172: 508 (2013)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Zimbabwe to S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/146457107/146457109

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
A shrub or tree 1-10 m. high, not climbing; young branchlets densely short- to long-pubescent and with many red-brown glands.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules not spinescent.
Morphology General Prickles
Prickles in pairs just below the nodes, ± downwardly hooked, up to 5(7) mm. long.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves: petiole 3-13 mm. long; rhachis 2·5-5 cm. long, unarmed or rarely sparsely prickly; gland on petiole 0·5-1 mm. long, sometimes absent; glands also between top 1-5(7) pairs of pinnae; pinnae 8-20 pairs; leaflets 15-32 pairs, 1-4 x 0·25-1 mm., pubescent on the margins and lower surface or near the margins only, obtuse to rounded at the apex, with midrib and lateral nerves invisible or obscure beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white to cream, sessile, in spikes 3-7 cm. long on peduncles 0·5-2·5 cm. long; axis densely pubescent, also glandular.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 2-2·75 mm. long, densely short-pubescent outside.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla 2·5-3·5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent on the outside of the lobes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamen-filaments 7-7·5 mm. long; anthers 0·15 mm. across, with a caducous gland.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary glabrous, shortly stipitate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods brown, dehiscent, 5(6)-14 x (1)1·4-2·3 cm., ± densely pubescent and with ± numerous brown glands, linear-oblong, straight, ± acuminate to acute at the base and apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 7-8·5 x 5-8·5 mm., flattened; central areole small, 1-1·5 x 1·5 mm.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian wooded grassland, Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone; wooded grassland.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub/Tree
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Flora Zambesiaca

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

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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