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Name

Identification
Striga somaliensis Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Striga hermonthica Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Striga hermonthica
  • Striga somaliensis

Flora

Entry for STRIGA latericea Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STRIGA latericea Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1882). Fig. 196C.
STRIGA somaliensis Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1906);. type: N1, “Onunuff”, James & Thrupp s.n. (K holo.).
Information
Perennial, up to 60 cm tall, unbranched or with 2–3 branches from base, pubescent; stem square, furrowed. Leaves 20–35 x 4–6 mm, opposite, linear to lanceolate, slightly toothed, 3-veined, shorter than internodes. Lower bracts 20–33 x 2–6 mm, linear, often shorter than calyx, upper bracts lanceolate, shorter than calyx. Flowers opposite in racemes, raceme lax at base, dense above middle, shorter than vegetative stem. Calyx at least 15-ribbed, 10–24 mm long; tube 10–15 mm long; lobes 5, unequal, broadly lanceolate, 5–15 mm long, longer than tube. Corolla salmon-pink; tube 22–30 mm long, bent and expanded distally above calyx, densely glandular-pubescent; lobes of lower lip 10–15(–20) x 7–9 mm, obovate; upper lip 7–13 x 13–14 mm, emarginate.
Range
N1, 2; S1, 3
Altitude range
20–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10025; Glover & Gilliland 1231; Terry 3384.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Notes
S. latericea is a perennial that produces aerial shoots from adventitious buds developing from the roots, unique in the genus. The aerial parts also have a perennial habit with new shoots arising from the lower nodes after much of the stem matures and dies.

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