Vachellia edgeworthii (T.Anderson) Kyal. & Boatwr.

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 172: 512 (2013)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is NE. Tropical Africa to Kenya, Yemen. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub 0.3–2 m. high, usually low, flat-topped and up to 2.4–4.5 m. wide, branching from base or sometimes with a very short main stem exposed.
Morphology Branches
Young branchlets puberulous to pubescent or sometimes tomentose (hairs, to 0.5 mm. long), usually glabrescent, grey to grey-brown, sometimes purplish-brown or dark grey; epidermis not or inconspicuously peeling or flaking; lenticels inconspicuous, or pale and dot-like.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules spinescent, straight or nearly so, slightly ascending to slightly deflexed, on mature shoots (0.4–)1–3.5 cm. long (to 4.5 cm. on robust apparently juvenile shoots); “ant-galls” and other prickles absent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves:rhachis 0.5–4.5 cm. long, pubescent or tomentose; pinnae (3–)4–10 pairs; leaflets 6–15(–20) pairs, 0.75–3.5 mm. long, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, usually ciliate or pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white, in heads on axillary, tomentose or densely pubescent, eglandular peduncles 0.4–1.5 cm. long; involucel basal or in lower half of peduncle.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1–2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla 2.5–3 mm. long; lobes densely white-pubescent outside.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods (Fig. 17/62, A & B, p. 68) falcate to straight or nearly so, thick and woody, ultimately dehiscent, 7–13(–15) cm. long, 1.3–2.5 cm. wide, densely velvety-pubescent or tomentellous, brown to brownish-crimson, longitudinally veined, not winged.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds large, blackish, minutely roughened or smooth, ellipsoid to subglobose, 9–13 mm. in diameter; central areole 7–10 mm. long, 3–4.5 mm. wide.
Habitat
Dry scrub ( Acacia-Commiphora) ; 360–550 m.
Distribution
K1
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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