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Heliophytum pterocarpum

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Identification
Heliotropium pterocarpum (de Candolle) Bunge [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by H. Förther, Isotype of Heliophytum pterocarpum de Candolle [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by DC., 1845
Related name
  • Heliotropium bacciferum
  • Heliotropium pterocarpum
  • Heliophytum pterocarpum

Flora

Entry for HELIOTROPIUM pterocarpum (DC.) Hochst. & Steud. ex Bunge [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
HELIOTROPIUM pterocarpum (DC.) Hochst. & Steud. ex Bunge [family BORAGINACEAE], (1869);
Heliophytum pterocarpum DC. [family ], (1845). [type as above]
Information
Herb or subshrub, prostrate to erect, covered by ± appressed to spreading soft to bristly and tubercle-based hairs. Leaf-blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate or oblanceolate, 0.5–3.5 x 0.3–1.5 cm, attenuate to shortly cuneate at the base, acute to obtuse at the apex, with crenulate-undulate margins; petiole 0–1 cm long. Flowers sessile in dense simple or branched cymes. Calyx densely hairy; lobes linear-lanceolate, 3–4.5 mm long. Corolla white or with yellow centre; tube 4–5 mm long, hairy outside; lobes 0.8–1.5 mm long. Style c. 0.5 mm long; stigmatic head conical, c. 0.5–0.7 mm long. Nutlets 2, 2–3 x 3–4 mm, laterally narrowly to broadly winged, glabrous or pubescent.
Range
N1–3; S2 North and West Africa
Altitude range
0–610 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 2361; Bally 7258; Thulin & Warfa 5885.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Sudan
Arabian Peninsula

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