Senegalia laeta (R.Br. ex Benth.) Seigler & Ebinger | Plants of the World Online

Descriptions

According to Flora of West Tropical Africa under the synonym Acacia laeta

[FWTA]

Mimosaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958

Habit: A small glabrous tree
Spines: Black curved spines
Inflorescences: Spikes of white flowers.

According to Flora of Tropical East Africa under the synonym Acacia laeta

[FTEA]

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

Habit: Shrub or small tree up to 6 m. high.
Branches: Young branchlets glabrous, grey-brown or rarely purplish.
Stipules: Stipules not spinescent.
Prickles: Prickles in pairs just below each node, purplish-black, hooked, 3–5.5 mm. long, their base about 3–5 mm. long.
Leaves: Leaves:petiole usually glandular; rhachis glabrous to ± pubescent, frequently with a gland between the top pair of pinnae; pinnae 2–3 pairs; leaflets (2–) 3–5 pairs, 4–15 (–20) mm. long, 2–7 (–10) mm. wide, obliquely obovate-elliptic or -oblong, glabrous or ± puberulous, venose, rounded to mucronate or subacute at apex.
Flowers: Flowers white, subsessile or up to 0.5 (–0.75, very rarely 1) mm. pedicellate, in spiciform racemes 3.5–5 cm. long on peduncles 0.5–2 cm. long; axis glabrous or ± pubescent.
Calyx: Calyx 1.25–2 mm. long, glabrous.
Corolla: Corolla 2.75–4 mm. long, 5-lobed.
Stamens: Stamen-filaments 5–7 mm. long, free; anthers 0.1 mm. across, with a caducous gland.
Ovary: Ovary glabrous at first, very shortly stipitate.
Fruits: Pods (Fig. 14/6, p. 52) pale brown, dehiscent, glabrous or slightly puberulous towards base, oblong, straight, venose, rounded to acuminate at apex, 3.5–8 cm. long, 1.7–2.8 (–4) cm. wide.
Seeds: Seeds subcircular-lenticular, 9 (–10) mm. diam.; central areole small, somewhat impressed, 2 × 2 mm.
Habitat: Deciduous bushland; said by Burtt (T.T.C.L.: 329) to be locally common with Commiphora merkeri and Acacia mellifera on hard-pan soils in desert thornbush, and by Trapnell (2203) to occur with Commiphora and Balanites on sandy loam; Trapnell 2203 was collected at 1680 m.
Distribution: Egypt, French Sudan, the Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland Protectorate and Ethiopia, also in Arabia and the Dead Sea regionaccording to Aubréville also in French Niger Colony, Ivory Coast and Nigeria K6 T2

According to International Legume Database and Information Service under the synonym Acacia laeta

[ILDIS]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation: Not Threatened
Ecology: Africa: Sahel regional transition zone - wooded grassland., Sahara regional transition zone; woodland., Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket
Habit: Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub/Tree

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Distribution

Full Distribution Listing

Native to:

Algeria, Burkina, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zaïre

Introduced into:

Cuba

Synonyms

Other Data

Senegalia laeta (R.Br. ex Benth.) Seigler & Ebinger appears in other Kew resources:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Herbarium Catalogue (4 records)

Date	Reference	Identified As	Barcode
Jun 1, 1998	Madsen, J.E. [6051], Mali	Acacia laeta	K000386469
	illegible [s.n]	Acacia laeta	K000244153
	Madsen, J.E. [5988], Burkina Faso	Acacia laeta	K000386468
	Diallo, D. [282], Mali	Acacia laeta	K000386470

Bibliography

First published in Phytologia 91: 27 (2009)

Accepted by

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman. volume 2. Crassulaceae - Apiaceae Scripta Botanica Belgica 36: 1-220.
Boulos, L. (1999). Flora of Egypt 1: 1-419. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1989 publ. 1990). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 3: 1-659. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
Peyre de Fabregues, B. & Lebrun, J.-P. (1976). Catalogue des Plantes Vascularies du Niger: 1-433. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
Quézel, P. (1958). Mission Botanique au Tibesti: 1-357. Université d'Alger.

Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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International Legume Database and Information Service
International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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