- Family: Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus: Senegalia Raf.
Senegalia taylorii (Brenan & Exell) Kyal. & Boatwr.
- Genus: Senegalia Raf.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Tanzania (Lindi).
[FTEA]
Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Habit
- Scrambling shrub up to 4.5 m. high.
- Branches
- Young branchlets densely pubescent with small arcuate-ascending hairs; glands almost absent.
- Prickles
- Prickles scattered, deflexed, arising from longitudinal bands along the wholly grey or grey-brown stems.
- Leaves
- Leaves:petiole 1.7–3.9 cm. long; pinnae mostly 9–11 pairs; leaflets numerous. 17–34 pairs, narrowly oblong, 0.6–1 mm. wide; midrib subcentral at base.
- Flowers
- Flowers in heads about 7–8 mm. in diameter, irregularly paniculate.
- Stipules
- Stipules at base of peduncles small, up to 1.5 mm. wide, inconspicuous, soon caducous, not subcordate at base.
- Calyx
- Calyx greenish-cream; calyx-lobes glabrous and eglandular or almost so outside.
- Corolla
- Petals greenish-cream.
- Stamens
- Stamen-filaments creamy-white.
- Fruits
- Pods (Fig. 15/29, p. 66) stiffly papery, oblong, dehiscent, 11–15 cm. long, 1.5–2.7 cm. wide, glabrous except for scattered minute sessile brown glands.
- Seeds
- Seeds purple-brown, smooth, elliptic, flattened, 8–9 mm. long, 6–6.5 mm. wide; areole small, 4–5 mm. long, 1.5–2.5 mm. wide.
- Habitat
- Edge of dry water-course leading down to shore in coastal deciduous bushland at about sea-level
- Distribution
- known only from this gathering. T8
[ILDIS]
International Legume Database and Information Service
- Conservation
- Insufficiently known
- Ecology
- Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket.
- Habit
- Perennial, Climbing, Shrub
Native to:
Tanzania
Senegalia taylorii (Brenan & Exell) Kyal. & Boatwr. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 172: 510 (2013)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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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
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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