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Pentanisia calcicola

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Name

Identification
Pentanisia calcicola Verdc. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B.,
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Flora

Entry for PENTANISIA calcicola Verdc. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PENTANISIA calcicola Verdc. [family RUBIACEAE], (1981);. type: C1, shore at 6°01´N, 48°58´E, Gillett, Hemming & Watson 22180 (K holo., EA iso.). Fig. 37.
Information
Shrublet up to 10 cm tall from a thick woody base; stems pubescent with spreading hairs, internodes short. Leaf-blades linear to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 5–17 x 1.5–4.5 mm, subacute at the apex, shortly pubescent or scabrid; stipule sheath 1.5–3 mm long with few to several up to 2 mm long fimbriae. Flowers few together and apparently axillary at leafy branch tips. Calyx hairy or subglabrous; leaf-like lobes 1–4, 2–6 x 0.8–1.5 mm. Corolla yellowish-white, shortly pubescent outside; tube 20–28 mm long; lobes 3–5 mm long. Fruit subglobose, with thick spongy wall, 4.5–5 mm long, 4–5-celled. Seeds c. 1.8 mm long.
Range
N3; C1 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
10–110 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett, Hemming & Watson 22205; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7280; Thulin & al. 10505.

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