Vachellia qandalensis (Thulin) Kyal. & Boatwr.

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Type

N3, Cal Miskaat in Bahaya area, c. 20 km SW of Qandala, 11°19’N, 49°49’E, Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Ahmed Osman 9419 (UPS holo., K iso.)

Morphology General Habit

Slender tree, up to 4 m tall, with a distinct trunk; bark brownish-yellow, peeling in papery flakes; young branchlets purplish-brown, soon becoming grey, glabrous, subterete or shallowly sulcate

Morphology General Spines

Stipular spines slender, straight, up to 12 mm long

Morphology Leaves

Leaves glabrous to sparsely puberulous; pinnae 1–2 pairs, rhachis usually with a round shortly stipitate apically depressed gland c. 0.3 mm in diam. between the pinnae of one or both pairs

Morphology Leaves Leaflets

Leaflets c. 5–9 pairs per pinna, 1.5–4 x 0.5–1 mm, oblong, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, without prominent lateral veins

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers whitish, in heads 6–7 mm in diam.; peduncles c. 5–10 mm long (up to c. 15 mm in fruit), with involucel near middle or in upper part

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx c. 1.8 mm long, with puberulous tips to the lobes

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Corolla c. 2.4 mm long, glabrous

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods straight, oblong-elliptic, compressed, soon dehiscent, purplish-brown, c. 45–50 x 11–13 mm, subacute at the apex, attenuate at the base; valves thin, glabrous, with a rather indistinct venation

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds ovate-elliptic to oblong in outline, c. 5.5–7 x 4–5 mm; areole central, c. 3.2–5 x 3.2–4 mm.

Distribution

N3 not known elsewhere.

Ecology

Altitude range 600–1400 m.

Vernacular

Fulalaa, qhora-yar (Somali)