The Museum of Evolution Herbarium (UPS)

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Catalogue no.: V-1221002
Taxon: Adansonia digitata L.
Label: Adansonia digitata L.
Family: Malvaceae
Collector: J.B. Gillett & C.F. Hemming
Collector no.: 24910
Date: 1983 06 20
Country: Somalia
Province: Bay
Locality: Locality L 132. Bur Akaba, eastern foot of mountain
Habitat: Foot of basemen complex mountain from which much run off must come. Near large village. White soil. Degraded vegetation with a few large trees, Adansonia, Ficus, Ziziphus
Remarks: Two big trees and one small one here. Not sen elsewhere north of 0°30'N except in coastal dune belt up to Brava c. 110'N. Reported from two or three isolated spots up to c 4°N often common west of Juba riover south of 0°30'N

Yah (Somali)
Attributes: Tree c. 18 m tall and 16 m circumference at breast height,
Coordinates: latDD 02.8; longDD 044.08333