{"id":12270,"date":"2020-11-10T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/vachellia-gerrardii-benth-p-j-h-hurter-subsp-negevensis-zohary-ragup-seigler-ebinger-maslin\/"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:21:18","slug":"vachellia-gerrardii-benth-p-j-h-hurter-subsp-negevensis-zohary-ragup-seigler-ebinger-maslin","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/vachellia-gerrardii-benth-p-j-h-hurter-subsp-negevensis-zohary-ragup-seigler-ebinger-maslin\/","title":{"rendered":"Vachellia gerrardii (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter subsp. negevensis (Zohary) Ragup., Seigler, Ebinger &#038; Maslin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tree up to 7-10 m in height, spiny, hermaphrodite, deciduous, usually with a multi-stemmed trunk and highly branched towards the top, and an intricate crown. Trunk and main branches with bark fissured longitudinally, grey or greyish-red, that does not peel. Young branches hairy at first, then reddish-brown and glabrous. Stipular spines 2-5(8) cm, paired, almost horizontal, straight, whitish, sometimes reduced to hooked spines 3-5 mm. Leaves 2.5-6 cm, alternate, bipinnate, with petiole <em>c. <\/em>1 cm, petiole and rachis tomentose, the latter with 3-9 pairs of pinnae \u2014with 1 gland at the insertion of the upper pinnae\u2014, each with (8)10-20(23) pairs of leaflets 1.7-3.5 \u00d7 0.8-1.2 mm, oblong, rounded at the apex, subsessile, tomentose-puberulent, rarely glabrous, green. Inflorescences in spherical capitula, 8-12(15) mm in diameter, axillary, solitary or in fascicles of up to 3, pedunculate \u2014peduncle up to 3 cm, tomentose\u2014 with numerous minute flowers, white, cream or pale yellow. Calyx <em>c. <\/em>1.5 mm, with puberulous teeth. Corolla <em>c. <\/em>2.5 mm. Stamens numerous. Pods 6-12 cm \u00d7 6-12(16) mm, linear or with slightly sinuous margins, pendulous, falcate, not constricted between the seeds, compressed, reddish-brown, puberulent-tomentose although sometimes glabrous with age, dehiscent , with 6-8 seeds. Seeds 6-8 \u00d7 6-8 mm, ellipsoid, compressed, brown, smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Vachellia gerrardii","name_html":"<strong>Vachellia gerrardii<\/strong>","short_description":"","common_names":"<em>Acacia <\/em><em>iraqensis <\/em>Rch. fil. <em>A. gerrardii <\/em>var<em>. najdensis<\/em> Chaudhary, <em>A. pachyceras <\/em>var. <em>najdensis<\/em> (Chaudhary) Boulos","other_name":"<em>Eng.<\/em>: Acacia.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Spa<\/em>.: Acacia.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Fre<\/em>.: Acacia.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Ara<\/em>.: Talh, sayyal.","flowering":"July to October.","fruiting":"In November.","habitat":"Desert and semi-desert areas. It is one of the main species of the vegetation in wadis, and its distribution appears to be closely linked to the caravan routes.","distribution":"The species grows in the central Sahel and in eastern Africa. The subspecies grows in the Sinai Peninsula, Palestine, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Iraq.","observations":"","conservation":"A relatively common and widespread species, not considered threatened. 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