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Rhynchosia schimperi

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Name

Identification
Rhynchosia schimperi Hochst. ex Boiss. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Glycine schimperi Hochst. & Steud.; nom. nud. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bräuchler, C., 2013
Related name
  • Glycine schimperi
  • Rhynchosia cliffordii
  • Rhynchosia schimperi

Flora

Entry for RHYNCHOSIA schimperi Hochst. ex Boiss. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
RHYNCHOSIA schimperi Hochst. ex Boiss. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1872). Fig. 237 E.
RHYNCHOSIA cliffordii Hutch. & Bruce [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1941);. type: N1, Hargeisa, Gillett 4269 (K holo.).
Information
Prostrate or spreading shrub or subshrub; ultimate branches ± herbaceous, shortly grey tomentose. Leaflets 3, obovate to suborbicular or oblate, 0.8–2.5 x 0.6–3 cm, obtuse, truncate or emarginate, densely silvery tomentose on both sides, or dark green and more finely pubescent above; venation narrowly reticulate and ± prominent beneath. Racemes 2–5(–7)-flowered, unbranched or rarely branched, short, equalling or not much exceeding subtending leaves. Calyx grey pubescent; tube 2–2.5 mm long; lowest lobe up to 4 mm long. Standard yellow, (5–)8–12 mm long, pubescent. Pod oblong, 1.5–2.2 x 0.7–0.9 cm, shortly and densely pubescent.
Range
N1, 3; C1
Altitude range
25–1640 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4864; Thulin & Warfa 5908, 6005.
Distribution (external)
NE Ethiopia
Arabia
Pakistan
India
Notes
Alihosat, gabal (Som.). The NE African plants tend to have larger flowers than normal in R. schimperi and previously have been called R. cliffordii. With the material now available the distinction has become much less clear and I prefer to regard R. cliffordii as conspecific with R. schimperi.

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