African Plant Database - Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn.

Protologue : Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 271 (1834)
Basionyme : Mimosa cinerea L.

Statut
MAaccepté (présent)
NAaccepté (présent)
SAaccepté (présent)
TAaccepté, NF (présent)

Ecologie et Distribution :
Afrique Tropicale
Biologie :
Shrub or tree 1-8(-12) m tall, sometimes suckering and thicket-forming or ever scandent, with rough bark and armed with spines terminating short lateral spreading twigs which often bear leaves and flowers; see more in the book
Ecologie :
The total range of ecological tolerance is very great; near sealevel Very variable. Comprises 7 subspp. in tropical Africa. The infraspecific taxa of D. cinerea are primarily geographical, but there can be little doubt that some of them are ecologically distinct also. Cape Verde Islands; Botswana, S. Africa, Namibia; Comoro Islands; Arabia: SW Saudi Arabia, NW and E Yemen; only once recorded from Dhofar and Oman - [see more in the book] Infraspecific taxa of D. cinerea in tropical Africa:subsp. africana Brenan & Brummitt var. africana [see more in the book]

Bibliographie9

Cat. Pl. Niger 158 (1976)

Cat. Pl. Mali 133 (1986)

Med-Checklist 4: 87 (1989).

Bocconea 8: 121 (1998).

Fl. Egypt (Boulos) 1: 372 (1999).

Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:259 (2012)

Pl. Sudan Checklist 196 (2015)

Flore ill. Tchad 438 (2019)

Fl. ill. Burkina Faso & Mali: 628 (2024)

Synonyme(s) Homotypique(s)3
Mimosa cinerea L. (1753)
Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn. subsp. cinerea (1834)
Cailliea cinerea (L.) Roberty

Synonyme(s) Hétérotypique(s)2
=Dichrostachys glomerata (Forssk.) Chiov.
=Mimosa glomerata Forssk.

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