Thulin, M (1993) Fabaceae in Flora of Somalia 1: 341-465
Plants trees up to 30 m tall, with more or less rounded crowns; bark rough, dark-brown or greyish; branchlets stra-colored or whitish; stipular spines up to 2 cm long, straight. Leaves with 3-10 pairs of pinnae, their axes with a conspicuous gland at the junction of each pair but petioles without glands; leaflets 6-23 pairs per pinna 3.5-6(-12) mm long, 0.7-2.25(-4) mm wide. Inflorescences spikes 3.5-14 cm long. Flowers shortly pedicellate; calyces up to 2 mm long; corollas up to 3.5 mm long; filaments basally connate; anthers without glands, even in buds. Pods falcate or coiled, indehiscent, 6-25 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide, bright orange or purplish brown; seeds elliptic-lentifular, 9-11 mm long, 6-8 mm wide; areoles 7-9 mm long, 4-6 mm wide.
Faidherbia includes only 1 species, Faidherbia albida. The features that, in combination, set it apart from African species that used to be included in Acacia are tis eglandular petioles, basally connate filaments, eglandular anthers, and colorful coiled pods.
Faidherbarbia is a segregate of Acacia s.l. It includes only one species, F. albida. It is distinguished from other segregats of Acacia by the combination of
spiciform inflorescences
filaments that are connate for about 1mm;
anthers that are eglandular at the tip, even in bud; and
falcate to almost circular pods.
Its only species is known as the Apple-ring Acacia because of the shape of the pods.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.