Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Acacia mellifera ssp. mellifera (Vahl)Benth..

Acacia mellifera ssp. mellifera (Vahl)Benth.

HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia mellifera ssp. mellifera (Vahl)Benth. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [50]; Djibouti (N) [239]; Egypt (N) [50]; Ethiopia (N) [50]; Kenya (N) [50]; Namibia (N) [50]; Somalia (N) [50]; Sudan (N) [50]; Tanzania (N) [50]
Middle East: Saudi Arabia (N) [8]; South Yemen (N) [8]; Yemen (N) [8]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [1, 50] ; Distribution Map [57] ; Illustration [24, 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

24.		Thulin, M., 1983
		Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

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.

57.		Wickens, G.E., 1976
		Kew Bull.Addnl.ser.5. The flora of Jebel Marra (Sudan)...

239.		Bavazzano, R., 1972
		Webbia 26:267-364. Contrib. fl. Terr.Fr.degli Afar e d.Issa