Acacia drepanolobium Sjost.

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Status: Accepted
Genus: Acacia Miller
Tribe: Acacieae
References: [50]

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Other names:

• Acacia formicarum Harms [Synonym] [50]
  
• Acacia lathouwersii Staner [Synonym] [50]
  

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Common Names:

• Whistling Thorn [42] [3087] [3088]
  

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Descriptors:

• Habit:
  • Shrub
  • Tree
• Lifespan:
  • Perennial
• Stems:
  • Not climbing
• Source(s):
  • 1988(Africa)Lock JM
  • 1999 Bisby FA
• Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator:
  • 1994 Rico ML
• Conservation Status:
  • Not Threatened

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Geographical Distribution:

• Africa
  • Ethiopia [50]
  • Kenya [50]
  • Somalia [50]
  • Sudan [50]
  • Tanzania [50]
  • Uganda [50]
  • Zaire [50]

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Notes:

• Characteristic of seasonally wet black clay soils. [3087]
  
• Shoots bear a pair of slender thorns or a swollen thorn pair. [3087]
  
• Swollen thorn pairs are occupied by specialised species of plant-ants. [3087]
  
• In Kenya four ant species of the genus Crematogaster are reported. [3087]
  
• Crematogaster mimosae occupies almost 50% of trees at one Kenyan site. [3087]
  
• The three other ant species occupy different trees at one Kenyan site. [3087]
  
• Crematogaster sjostedti also occupies Acacia seyal. [3087]
  
• Less than 1% of trees were unoccupied at one Kenyan site. [3087]
  

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Last Update: 14/06/2001 12:47:59