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Dichrostachys cinerea ssp. africana Brenan & Brummitt

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HIGHER TAXON: Mimoseae

GENUS: Dichrostachys (DC.)Wight & Arn.

Dichrostachys cinerea ssp. africana Brenan & Brummitt [Accepted]
    Dichrostachys arborea N.E.Br. {Synonym}
  
VERNACULAR NAME: -
  
PLACES: -
  Africa
    Angola-ISO (N) [21]; Botswana (N) [6]; Burundi (N) [21]
    Cameroon (N) [21]; Cape Verde (N) [6]
    Central African Rep. (N) [21]; Egypt (I) [21]
    Ethiopia (N) [6]; Gambia The (N) [21]; Ghana (N) [21]
    Kenya (N) [21]; Malawi (N) [6]; Mali (N) [561]
    Mozambique (N) [6]; Namibia-ISO (N) [6]; Nigeria (N) [21]
    Rwanda (N) [21]; Senegal (N) [6]; Sierra Leone (N) [21]
    South Africa (N) [6]; Sudan (N) [21]; Swaziland (N) [6]
    Tanzania (N) [6]; Togo (N) [21]; Uganda (N) [21]
    Zaire (N) [21]; Zambia (N) [6]; Zimbabwe (N) [6]
  Asia
    Pakistan (I) [21]
  Caribbean
    Cuba (I) [21]
  Indian Ocean
    Comoro Is (N) [21]
  North America
    United States (I) [21]
  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [1], Sudanian wooded grassland [11]
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [6], Zambezian woodland [6]
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [1]
  
DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing
  Conservation Status: Not Threatened
  Habit: Shrub, Tree
  Lifespan: Perennial
  Nodules: Present
  Source: Lock,J.M.(1988) African Checklist
  
USES: -

  
NOTES:
  Brenan and Brummitt distinguish seven varieties.Ref 21. All desc.& mapped.
  MacDonald Idu, pers. comm., reported the presence of globose nodules.


DATA SOURCES:

1.

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

6.

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

11.

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

21.

   Brenan,J.P.M. & Brummitt,R.K., 1965
    Bol.Soc.Brot.,2,39:61-115. Dichrostachys cinerea
    Bol.Soc.Brot.,2,39:61-115. Dichrostachys cinerea

561.

   Boudet,G. & Lebrun,J.-P., 1986
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.
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