Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Acacia nilotica ssp. nilotica (L.)Delile.

Acacia nilotica ssp. nilotica (L.)Delile

HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia nilotica ssp. nilotica (L.)Delile [Preferred name]
Acacia vera Willd. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Chad (N) [64]; Egypt (N) [50]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Mali (N) [50]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [50]; Senegal (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [50]
Indian Ocean: Mauritius (I) [3052]; Rodrigues (I) [1915]
Middle East: Oman (U) [8]; South Yemen (I) [8]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian wooded grassland [50];

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

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub [3052], Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

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)...

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

78.		Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
		IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

1915.		Polhill, R, M., 1990
		Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

3052.		Bojer, W., 1837
		Hortus Mauritianus ou Enumeration des Plants...l'ile Maurice