Zygophyllaceae
Balanites

Balanites glabra Mildbr. & Schltr.

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 51: 163 (1913)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is NW. Somalia to N. Tanzania. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. J. S. Sands & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Pickering, H. & Awale, A. I. (2018). Introduction to plants in Central Somaliland. Ponte Invisibile, Redsea Cultural Foundation.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • A. Engler & O. Drude, Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3: 743, fig. 348a (1915).
  • Beentje, Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas p. 378, map (1994).
  • Blundell, Wild Fl. E Afr.: t. 15 (1987).
  • Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 534 (1956) pro parte excl. loc. Turkana.
  • Engl. in A. Engler & K. Prantl, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 19a: 182, fig. 87a (1931).
  • J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 571 (1949).
  • Mildbr. & Schltr. in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 51: 163, fig. 1A/a–d (1913).
  • Sands & Thulin in Fl. Somal. 2: 169, fig. 111/g–i (1999).
  • Sands in Fl. Ethiop. 3: 434, fig. 121.1/7–9 (1990).
  • Sands in Kew Bulletin 56: 99, t. 15, map 10 (2001).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • 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

  • 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

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