Flaky Bark Thorn

exuvialis: peeling or flaking, referring to the bark.

Shrub or small tree. Bark peeling in orange-brown papery strips. Thorns paired, straight, up to 7 cm. long, whitish, often somewhat inflated near the base. Leaves with 2-4 pairs of pinnae; leaflets in 3-6 pairs per pinna, oblong, 4-10 mm long, largest leaflets at the ends of the pinnae; apex rounded with a small sharp tip; glands present on the rhachis between each pair of pinnae. Flowers in bright yellow spherical axillary heads. Pods more or less strongly sickle-shaped, flattened and somewhat constricted between the seeds, up to c. 5 × 1 cm, glands inconspicuous or absent, dehiscent.

SE Zimbabwe, Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa.