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Acacia laeta Benth.

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia laeta Benth. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Burkina (N) [11]; Chad (N) [64]; Egypt (N) [50]; Ethiopia (N) [50]; Mali (N) [11]; Niger (N) [50]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Somalia (N) [50]; Sudan (N) [50]; Tanzania (N) [50]
  Asia
Iraq (I) [8]
  Middle East
Saudi Arabia (N) [8]; South Yemen (N) [8]; Yemen (N) [8]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahara regional transition zone; woodland. [33];
    Sahel regional transition zone - wooded grassland. [50];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1, 50] ; Illustration [50]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1959
    Mimosoideae.In:Fl.Trop.East Africa.Hubbard & Milne-Redhead

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

11.

  Keay, R.W.J., 1958
    Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

50.

  Ross, J.H., 1979
    Mem.Bot.Surv.S.Afr.44:1-150. A conspectus of African Acacia.

64.

  Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
    IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional
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