M. Thulin (1999) Rhamnaceae Flora of Somalia 2: 150-156

Plants shrubs or trees up to 15 m tall, usually spiny, rarely not so; bark grey, fissured. Leaves petiolate; petioles 3-12 mm long; blades ovate to elliptic or suborbicular, 2-8 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, bases symmetrical or almost so, margins serrulate, tips subacute to more or less rounded, lower surfaces tomentose. Inflorescences usually many-flowered cymes. Flowers tomentose, white to yellowish green; sepals 1.5-2 mm long; petals about 1.5 mm long. Drupes 10-20 mm in diameter, red.

Ziziphus mauritiana grows in bushland and woodland, often along rivers and wadis, at 20-1320 m. It is considered native from Cape Verde and western northern Africa to eastern and southeastern Asia. The Flora of Somalia reported it as growing in its regions N1, C2, S1 and S3 as well as in other dry parts of Africa and Asia. It has also been introduced into the Americas and Australia. 

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Awale & Jama (2018). Hordhaca dhirta badhtamaha Soomaalilaand.

Geed illaa 15 m gaadha, oo inta badan qodxo badan iyo jirrid dameeri ah leh. Caleemo qaabka ugxanta ah, oo dacallo sida miishaarta ah leh. Ubax caddaan iyo huruud ah oo koox iskugu xidhan. Midho ku dhex jira cad cas.

Sabo: Dhul kaymeed, inta badan hareeraha biyo mareennada, joog ah illaa 1300 m.

Filiqsanaanta: Jabuuti, Meelaha qallalan ee Afrika iyo Eeshiya.

H. Pickering & A.I. Awale (2018) Introduction to the plants of Central Somaliland

Habit: shrubs or trees to 15 m tall, usually spiny, often with zig-zag branches; bark grey and fissured.

Leaves: ovate to ovate-elliptic, 2-8 cm long, lower surfaces tomentose (differing in this from Ziziphus spina-christi).

Inflorescnces usually many-flowered and axillary.

Flowers up to about 2 mm long, tomentose, white to yellowish green.

Fruits: red globose drupes 1-2 cm in diameter.

Ziziphus mauritiana grows in bushland and woodland, often along rivers and wadis, at 20-1320 m. It is known from regions N1, C2, S1 and S3 of the Flora of Somalia as well as in other dry part of Africa and Asia and has been introduced into the Americas.

Plants of the World Online (POWO): Ziziphus mauritiana

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): Ziziphus mauritiana