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Senegalia ataxacantha

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(de Candolle) Kyalangalilwa & Boatwright

Common Names

• Flame Thorn

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Wooded grassland
• thickets
• forest
• gallery forest
• riverside
• termite mounds

Flowering Times

• Dec-Mar

Fruiting Times

• Mar Apr-Jul

Prickly scandent scrambling shrub, shrub or small tree with glabrescent branches with prickles, scented cream to white 3mm flowers in axillary spikes or racemes to 80mm long, fruit a purple-brown to red glabrous pod to 140mm long, 19mm wide, hooked prickles along stems, flowers in axillary spikes, bipinnate leaves, leaflets to 4mm or more in 20-40 pairs

Further References

• FCP
• Jstor
• APDC
• WNBC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• ILDIS