Vachellia gerrardi

Vachellia gerrardi is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a shrub or tree native to seasonally-dry and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa from Burkina Faso to Ethiopia, Namibia, and KwaZulu Natal, and to the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, southern Israel, and Sinai Peninsula in southwestern Asia. Four varieties are accepted.

Vachellia gerrardi var. calvescens (Brenan) Kyal. & Boatwr. – Kenya and Tanzania Vachellia gerrardi var. gerrardi – tropical Africa from Burkina Faso to Ethiopia, Namibia, and KwaZulu-Natal Vachellia gerrardi var. latisiliqua (Brenan) Kyal. & Boatwr. – Angola, Kenya, and Tanzania Vachellia gerrardi var. najdensis (Chaudhary) Ragup., Seigler, Ebinger & Maslin – Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, southern Israel, and the Sinai Peninsula In the montane woodlands of Oman's Hajar Mountains, var. najdensis grows in woodland on steep and rocky slopes with Euphorbia larica, Vachellia tortilis, and Periploca aphylla. The species was first described by George Bentham in 1875. In 2008 P. J. H. Hurter placed the species in genus Vachellia as V. gerrardi.