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Acacia seyal Delile

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HIGHER TAXON: Acacieae

GENUS: Acacia Mill.

Acacia seyal Delile [Preferred name]
    Acacia fistula Schweinf. {Synonym}
    Acacia flava var. seyal (Delile)Roberty {Synonym}
    Acacia stenocarpa A.Rich. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Gum Arabic Tree [1983]; Shittim Wood [1902]; Thirty Thorn [1983]; Whistling Tree [1983]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Burkina (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Djibouti (N) [239]; Egypt (N) [50]; Ethiopia (N) [50]; Ghana (N) [8]; Kenya (N) [1]; Malawi (N) [50]; Mali (N) [11]; Mauritania (N) [8]; Mozambique (N) [6]; Niger (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [11]; Somalia (N) [50]; Sudan (N) [50]; Tanzania (N) [50]; Togo (N) [8]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zambia (N) [6]
  Asia
India (I) [1914]; Pakistan (I) [2010]
  Middle East
Saudi Arabia (N) [1939]; Yemen (N) [1939]
  North America
United States (I) [1360, 3157]; Florida [3157]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1, 50, 1859, 2010] ; Distribution Map [57, 91] ; Illustration [50, 1859, 3088]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS, 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3157] ; Habit: Shrub [3581], Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 1999 Bisby FA, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Chemical products [1939, 2010]; Environmental [1360]; Forage [3653]; Miscellaneous [2010]; Wood [42, 3653]

  
NOTES:
  Gum arabic inferior to that of A.senegal. [2059]
  Swollen thorn pairs occupied by the ant Crematogaster sjostedti. [3087]

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

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  Brenan, J.P.M., 1970
    Mimosoideae.In:Flora Zambeziaca Vol.3(1).Brenan,JPM et al.

8.

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

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

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  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

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  Dale, I.R. & Greenway, P.J., 1961
    Kenya Trees and Shrubs

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

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

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

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  Brenan, J.P.M. et al., 1977
    Bull.Int.Group for study of Mimosoideae,5:31-45.Dist. maps..

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

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  Isely, D., 1973
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1939.

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  Ali, S.I., 1973
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3157.

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  Anonymous, 1979
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