Albizia gummifera(J.F.Gmel.) C.A.Sm.

WFO wfo-0000183535 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Albizia gummifera, photographed by Stuart Cable
fig. a Stuart Cable, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-02-18 / obs. 14031190
Albizia gummifera, photographed by Stuart Cable
fig. b Stuart Cable, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2508606
Albizia gummifera, photographed by Stuart Cable
fig. c Stuart Cable, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14031192
Albizia gummifera, photographed by Stuart Cable
fig. d Stuart Cable, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14031197
Albizia gummifera, photographed by Stuart Cable
fig. e Stuart Cable, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14031195
Albizia gummifera, photographed by Stuart Cable
fig. f Stuart Cable, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14031196

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
00391361
Filed as
Albizia gummifera (J.F.Gmel.) C.A.Sm.
Det. by
R. C. Barneby 1984-01-01
Collected
A. C. Gabrielli 1980-10-02
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Albizia gummifera is native: Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe AngolaBeninBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEthiopiaGabonGambiaGuineaKenyaMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaRwandaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Albizia gummifera, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Guinea GUI
Kenya KEN
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Rwanda RWA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia coronillifolia (Desf. ex F.Dietr.) DC.
  • Albizia ealaensis De Wild.
  • Albizia laevicorticata Zimm.
  • Albizia mearnsii De Wild.
  • Albizia sassa (Willd.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Mimosa coronillifolia Desf. ex F.Dietr.
  • Sassa gummifera J.F.Gmel.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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