M. Thulin, A.S. Hassan, & B.T. Styles (1993) 1:341-395
Plants shrubs or trees up to 8 m tall; branches brownish, pubescent or glabrous when young; prickles in pairs, hooked, to 5 mm long. Leaves with 2-3 pairs of pinnae; pinnae with 1-2 pairs of leaflets; leaflets more or less obovate, about 20 mm long and 15 mm wide, veins evident, glabrous (in Somaliland and Somalia). Inflorescences spikelike racemes, up to 3.5 cm long. Flowers pedicellate; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm long; calyces up to 1 mm long; corollas cream to white, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Pods oblong, straight, dehiscent, 2.5-8 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, pale brown to straw-voloured, transversly veined; seeds subcurcular, up to 10 mm long and 8 mm wide; areoles about 2.5 mm long and 2.5 mm wide.
Senegalia mellifera grows in deciduus bushland and dry scrub at 40-1200 m. It is known from all of the regions in the Flora of Somalia and from Egypt to Tanzania and also Angola, Namibiam and Arabia.