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Cordia monoica

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Identification
Cordia ovalis R.Br. ex DC. & A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cordia monoica Roxb. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cordia kabarensis
  • Cordia crenata
  • Cordia rubra
  • Cordia leucocoma
  • Cordia obovata
  • Cordia subpubescens
  • Cordia bakeri
  • Cordia monoica
  • Cordia dioica
  • Cordia senegalensis
  • Cordia ovalis
  • Cordia bequaertii
  • Cordia nevillii

Flora

Entry for CORDIA monoica Roxb. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin (Argusia, Arnebia, Bourreria, Coldenia, Cynoglossum, Cystostemon, Echiochilon, Ehretia, Heliotropium, Nogalia, Trichodesma, Wellstedia) & A. M. Warfa (Cordia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CORDIA monoica Roxb. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1796).
CORDIA ovalis DC. & A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1845).
CORDIA obovata Baker [family BORAGINACEAE], (1894), nom. illeg.;
CORDIA bakeri Britten [family BORAGINACEAE], (1895). [type as above]
Information
Shrub or small tree up to 8 m tall; young branchlets with brownish pubescens. Leaves alternate; blade broadly ovate, obovate or suborbicular, 2.5–9.5 x 1.9–6.7 cm, cuneate to rounded or subtruncate at the base, apiculate to rounded or often emarginate at the apex, entire to slightly crenate, usually very rough above, densely pubescent beneath; lateral veins usually reaching the margin of the leaf; petiole 10–25 mm long. Flowers fragrant, bisexual or rarely unisexual, in dense brownish pubescent inflorescences. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 4–8.5 mm long, often slightly sulcate, densely pubescent outside, 3–6(–7)-lobed. Corolla pale yellow or cream; tube 4–9 mm long; lobes 4–5. Stamens 4–5, exserted. Style with 3–6 mm long stigmatic branches. Male flowers with pistillode and female flowers with staminodes. Fruiting calyx funnel-shaped or cup-shaped, 6–11 x 7–13 mm. Drupe yellow or orange when ripe, usually ovoid, 10–18 x 5–10 mm.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 widespread in tropical Africa, also intropical Asia.
Altitude range
15–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5839; Gillett & Watson 23483; Beckett 1695.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
Notes
Mareer, mareer deylab, mareer docol (Som.).

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