Fabaceae
Senegalia

Senegalia fleckii (Schinz) Boatwr.

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 179: 293 (2015)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical & S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/146209033/146209035

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
Shrub or small round-crowned tree 1·5-10 m. high; bark on trunk grey to cream, peeling in small flakes; young branchlets densely grey-pubescent with many small reddish glands intermixed, later becoming rather smooth (except for prickles), pale grey to grey-brown.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules subulate, not spinescent.
Morphology General Prickles
Prickles in pairs just below the nodes, often many and strong, brown to grey or blackish, strongly hooked, up to 8 mm. long, usually broad-based.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves: petiole 0·5-1(1·3) cm. long, with a gland 0·75-2 mm. long; rhachis pubescent, eglandular; pinnae 6-20 pairs; leaflets (9)12-30 pairs, 2-5 x 0·3-1(1·2) mm., linear-oblong, straight or almost so, ± ciliate on the margins and sometimes pubescent on the lower surface also; veins somewhat prominent at first, becoming obscure as the leaves age, apex not oblique, rounded to obtuse or sometimes subacute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white, sessile, in spikes 3-6·5 cm. long on peduncles 1-2 cm. long; axis densely short-pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 2-3 mm. long, shortly pubescent or puberulous or sometimes subglabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla 3-4 mm. long, 5-lobed, glabrous to slightly puberulous on the outside of the lobes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamen-filaments 7-9 mm. long; anthers 0·2 mm. across, glandular at the apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary puberulous, stipitate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods pale-brown to straw-coloured, dehiscent, 6-12·5 (including stipe) x 1·3-2(2·3) cm., sparsely pubescent to subglabrous, with numerous small reddish glands, linear-oblong, straight, finely reticulately and transversely venose, rounded to acute at the apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 8-12 mm. in diam., subcircular; areole small, 1-4 x 1-2·5 mm.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

Common Names

English
Blade Thorn, Sandveld acacia

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

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Plants and People Africa

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
    • © Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com 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