Fabaceae
Vachellia

Vachellia erythrophloea (Brenan) Kyal. & Boatwr.

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 172: 512 (2013)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania (Tabora). It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical 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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Small tree up to 3.6 m. high.
Morphology Branches
Young branchlets very shortly grey-puberulous, then epidermis flaking away to expose the powdery, intensely brick-red inner bark.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules spinescent, nearly straight but rather short, black, 0.3–1.5 cm. long (on young coppice up to 2 cm. and whitish), some fused at base into round or ovoid “ant-galls” 1–2 cm. in diameter.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves with grey, inconspicuous puberulence on the 3–5 mm. long petiole and the 2–13 cm. long rhachis; pinnae of well-developed leaves of mature shoots 15–31 pairs (reduced leaves with fewer pairs usually also present), 1–2.9 cm. long; leaflets very numerous, 2–3 mm. long, about 0.75–0.9 mm. wide, acute or subacute at apex, ciliolate towards base or glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white, in heads; involucel at base of the ± puberulous, nearly or quite eglandular, 0.5–0.75 mm. thick peduncle.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla ciliolate on lobes, 3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods (Fig. 16/51, p. 67) falcate, grey-puberulous, acute at both ends, 3.5–6 cm. long, 0.4–0.8 cm. wide (? not fully mature).
Habitat
Shrub or dwarf-tree grassland, very locally gregarious in black soils of valleys; about 1130 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere T4
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian wooded grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • 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/

  • 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