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Buckollia
BUCKOLLIA Venter & R.L.Verh. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Two species in eastern and north-eastern Africa.
Woody climbers; stems twining, bark verrucose; latex white. Leaves opposite or clustered, petiolate; blade with secondary veins divaricate and parallel. Inflorescences monochasial, or dichasial with two monochasial branches, each bearing up to 10 flowers. Corolla rotate; tube shallow, saucer-shaped, with exserted gynostegium; lobes with glandular swellings at inner bases. Corona inserted at corolla mouth, with simple, filiform lobes. Stamens fused to inner base of corona-lobes, glabrous; filaments filiform; anthers ovate, acute at the apex; pollen in tetrads. Interstaminal nectaries lobular, distinct. Stigmatic head ovoid; pollen translators spathulate. Follicles paired, divergent to horizontal, long cylindrical-ovoid, tapering to blunt apex, puberulent and verrucose. Seeds with tuft of hairs at one end.
BUCKOLLIA volubilis (Schltr.) Venter & R.L.Verh. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S3
Roots tuberous; stems up to 4 m long, scrambling, branches divergent to horizontal, lateral shoots mostly stunted. Leaves clustered on stunted lateral shoots or opposite on normal shoots; petiole 1–3 mm long; blade narrowly to broadly ovate, 35–50(–65) x 7–15(–24) mm, green, pubescent, acute to obtuse or retuse at the apex, cuneate at the base. Inflorescences white-tomentose; peduncles 2–8 mm long; pedicles 1–2 mm long. Flowers aromatic. Sepals ovate to broadly ovate, 1.5–2 x 1.5–2 mm. Corolla glabrous; tube 0.8–1.2 mm long; lobes narrowly triangular to narrowly ovate, 5–7 x 2–3 mm, acute to obtuse, green to yellowish-green, glandular swelling globular, dull red-brown. Corona-lobes 4–9 mm long, pink with yellow to brownish base, glabrous to sparsely puberulous. Stamens 2–2.5mm long. Follicles 145–190 x 6–8 mm, greyish-brown, densely verrucose. Seeds narrowly ovate, 5–7 x 2 mm, smooth; hairs 2–30 mm long, whitish.
Buddleja
BUDDLEJA L. [family BUDDLEJACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Some 90 species in tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old and the New World.
Shrubs or small trees with an indumentum of generally branched hairs. Leaves mostly opposite; stipules leafy or reduced to a line. Flowers 4-merous, in terminal and/or axillary panicle- or raceme-like inflorescences. Calyx ± campanulate with subequal lobes. Corolla variously coloured; lobes imbricate. Stamens inserted in corolla; anther cells not confluent. Ovary 2-celled, each cell with many ovules; style with capitate or slightly 2-lobed stigma. Fruit a capsule with septicidal dehiscence or sometimes a berry.
BUDDLEJA polystachya Fresen. [family BUDDLEJACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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N2, 3
Shrub or tree, up to c. 5 m tall; branches, undersides of leaves and calyces tomentose with whitish hairs that sometimes turn rusty. Leaf-blades lanceolate to ovate or suborbicular, 0.8–17 x 0.4–6 cm, acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, serrate to entire; leafy stipules sometimes present; petiole 1–10 mm long. Flowers in raceme-like terminal inflorescences 3–25 x 0.8–2.5 cm. Calyx 2–3.5 mm long, shortly lobed. Corolla orange, 5–10 mm long, densely pubescent outside; lobes 1.5–3 mm long, rounded. Anthers subsessile. Pistil 2–4.5 mm long, pubescent. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5–5 mm long.
Bulbine
BULBINE Wolf [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Some 40 species, the great majority in South Africa, a few also in Australia.
Baijnath, Taxonomic studies in the genus Bulbine Wolf. PhD thesis, University of Reading (unpublished). Leaves fleshy, mostly linear and subterete. Inflorescence a many-flowered raceme; bracts scarious; pedicels not articulated. Tepals subequal, yellow, free or almost so, spreading or recurved, 1-nerved, cohering apically when withered, soon falling and leaving a small rim below the ovary. Stamens shorter than the tepals; filaments densely hairy in upper half. Capsule few- to many-seeded. Seeds angled.
BULBINE abyssinica A. Rich. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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N1, 2 Ethiopia and southwards to South Africa
Roots many, fleshy. Leaves up to c. 40 x 0.5 cm. Inflorescence up to c. 50 cm tall, dense-flowered in upper part; bracts c. 1 cm long; pedicels up to 2.5 cm long. Tepals bright yellow, c. 8 mm long; filaments with yellow hairs. Capsule subglobose, c. 4–5 mm long, constricted at the base.
Bulbostylis
BULBOSTYLIS Kunth [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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About 150 species in all tropical regions, but especially common in tropical Africa, and growing in relatively drier habitats than most other members of Cyperaceae.
Annual or perennial herbs of small to medium size; stems erect or somewhat curved, triangular, polyangular or almost terete, glabrous, scabrid or hairy. Leaves near the base only; blades well-developed, flat or filiform or rarely reduced to sheaths, usually with long flexuose hairs at the opening of the sheaths. Inflorescence a lax anthela, a head of congested spikelets or reduced to a single terminal spikelet; involucral bracts leafy or glume-like, often shorter than the inflorescence. Spikelets with few–numerous spirally arranged glumes, all scales fertile or 1–2 lowermost without flowers. Glumes pale, reddish brown to almost black, often with green midrib, ovate to orbicular with obtuse or acute apex, sometimes the midrib extended into an awn, glabrous or more commonly scabrid or short-hairy. Perianth absent. Stamens 1–3. Style with 2 or (commonly) 3 stigmas. Nutlet obovate to obcordate, obtusely or sharply triangular, rarely biconvex, pale, grey, reddish brown to almost black; surface smooth, transversely wrinkled, papillose, reticulate or longitudinally striate; the style base swollen and often persisting on the mature nutlet as a small knob.
BULBOSTYLIS barbata (Rottb.) C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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C2; S1, 3 widespread in the Old World tropics.
Slender tufted annual; stems 5–25 cm long and 0.2–0.4 mm thick, glabrous. Leaf-blades 1–10 cm long and 0.2–0.5 mm wide, scabrid on margin at least above; sheath with long slender hairs at its opening. Inflorescence a solitary terminal head of few–numerous spikelets, 3–15 mm in diam. Spikelets 3–8 x 1–1.5 mm, ovoid-lanceolate. Glumes 1.5–2 mm long, ovate, reddish brown with paler margin and usually green slightly excurrent scabrid midrib, glabrous or sparsely short-hairy. Stamen usually 1 only. Nutlet 0.5–0.7 mm long, obovate, triangular, light brown, smooth with isodiametric surface-cells; the style base persisting on the mature nutlet as a small knob.
BULBOSTYLIS craspedota Chiov. [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S3
Tufted perennial with woody horizontal rhizome and crowded shoots at the growing end; stems 20–70 cm long and 0.5–1.5 mm thick, angular, glabrous except for minute spine-like hairs below the inflorescence. Leaf-sheaths light brown, glabrous except for long flexuose hairs at their openings; blades 5–15 cm long and 0.5–1 mm wide, flat or canaliculate, almost glabrous. Inflorescence of 2–12 spikelets, either all sessile forming a head or with 1–3 additional stalked spikelets or spikelet-clusters; involucral bracts inconspicuous. Spikelets 6–10 x 2–4 mm, ovoid. Glumes 4–6 mm long, reddish brown with a green midrib, minutely hairy, ovate with acute apex; margin ciliate. Nutlet 1.4–1.8 mm long, obovate, transversely wrinkled; style base persistent.
BULBOSTYLIS hispidula subsp. hispidula [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S2 widespread in tropical Africa, but the Somali plants have smaller glumes than plants from elsewhere.
Slender annual. Stems 5–20 cm long and 0.3–0.5 mm thick, angular, hairy to glabrescent. Leaf-sheaths straw-coloured to brownish, prominently nerved, densely short-hairy with longer hairs at the orifices; blades to c. 10 cm long and 0.5 mm wide, flat or somewhat inrolled, hairy. Inflorescence a solitary terminal spikelet or consisting of 1 sessile spikelet subtended by 1–3 stalked spikelets; involucral bracts usually shorter than the inflorescence. Spikelets 4–6 x c. 3 mm, ovate with obtuse or subacute apex, 10–15-flowered. Glumes 2.2–2.5 mm long, ovate-triangular, medium to dark reddish brown, but frequently pale towards margin and apex, densely short-hairy both on surface and margin; midrib green, minutely hairy and excurrent into a short mucro. Nutlet c. 0.8 mm long, prominently triangular both in outline and in section, light reddish brown, with 5–6 prominent transverse undulations on each of the 3 sides; swollen style-base usually not persistent on the mature nutlet.
BULBOSTYLIS hispidula (Vahl) R. Haines [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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None
BULBOSTYLIS hispidula (Lye) R. Haines subsp. pyriformis [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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N1 East Africa.
Slender tufted annual with numerous stems and slender roots; stems 5–20 cm high and 0.2–0.5 mm thick, deeply ridged and densely set with short hairs; base of stem covered by very pale translucent old leaf-sheaths. Leaves 5–12 cm long and c. 0.2 mm wide, canaliculate and densely set with short hairs (0.1–0.2 mm long), but orifice and leaf-sheath with 2–3 mm long slender hairs; leaf-sheath very pale, transparent. Inflorescence a simple umbel-like anthela or spikelet solitary; major involucral bracts leafy, 5–15 mm long, densely hairy. Spikelets 4–8 x 2–3 mm. Glumes c. 3 mm long, reddish brown with a very distinct green midrib (distinctly protruding in the lower glumes, slightly or not protruding in the upper ones); short hairs present on margin, surface and midrib. Nutlet c. 1.3 x 1 mm, with a very distinctly cuneate base, white or pale brown; surface transversely undulate except for the 3 protruding tuberculate ribs; swollen base of the style either deciduous or persistent as a distinct brown knob.
BULBOSTYLIS hispidula Lye subsp. macroglumis [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S1 not known elsewhere.
Densely tussocky annual with many crowded stems; stems 5–20 cm long and 0.3–0.6 mm thick, angular and densely pubescent with 0.3–0.7 mm long hairs. Leaves often 3–4 per stem with new leafy shoots produced intravaginally; sheath pale to light reddish brown, pubescent with long flexuose hairs at their orifices; blades 3–10 cm long and 0.2–0.4 mm wide, flat, pubescent. Inflorescence a simple anthela of 1 sessile spikelet subtended by 1–3 stalked spikelets on up to 2 cm long peduncles, rarely reduced to a solitary spikelet; involucral bracts erect or spreading, leaf-like and to 2 cm long. Spikelets 5–9 x 3–4 mm, ovate. Glumes 4–5 mm long, medium to dark reddish brown, but with a wide pale margin, minutely pubescent and with a slightly scabrid raised pale midrib ending in or slightly below the apex, but the 2–3 lowermost scales with the midrib excurrent into a prominent up to 2 mm long awn. Nutlet 1–1.2 x c. 1 mm, grey to reddish brown, obtriangular in outline, triangular in section; surface with 6–10 prominent transverse undulations; swollen triangular style-base not persistent on the mature nutlet.
BULBOSTYLIS pallescens (Lye) R. Haines [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S3
Slender tufted annual; stems 5–12 cm long and 0.3–0.5 mm thick, scabrid. Leaf-blades 1–5 cm long and 0.3–0.7 mm wide, densely scabrid on margin and ribs; leaf-sheaths straw-coloured to light brown, densely scabrid. Inflorescence a solitary terminal cluster (5–10 mm wide), of 2–5 sessile spikelets; major inflorescence-bract filiform, 5–10 mm long. Spikelets 3–6 x 2-4 mm, ovoid, greyish. Glumes 2.6–3 mm long, ovate, pubescent, greyish or straw-coloured, but often reddish-brown below; midrib green, excurrent in a distinct mucro. Nutlet 0.7–0.8 x 0.4–0.5 mm, triangular, light brown with the base of the style persisting as a darker knob, indistinctly reticulate with rectangular surface-cells.
BULBOSTYLIS somaliensis Lye [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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None
BULBOSTYLIS somaliensis subsp. somaliensis [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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C1 not known elsewhere.
Slender tussocky annual; stems 5–25 cm long and 0.3–0.6 mm thick, angular, densely short-hairy. Leaf-sheaths pale to light reddish brown with green central part; blades 2–6 cm long and 0.2–0.5 mm wide, flat or inrolled, densely hairy on midrib and margins. Inflorescence a lax anthela up to 2 cm wide and long consisting of one sessile spikelet and 1–4 stalked spikelets; major involucral bract 3–10 mm long, with a leaf-like upper part. Spikelets 4–7 x 2–2.5 mm, ovate to lanceolate with acute tip, angular, 10–15-flowered. Glumes 2–2.5 mm long, light to medium reddish brown but with a prominent green midrib excurrent into a short mucro, densely short-hairy. Nutlet 0.7–0.8 x 0.6–0.7 mm, obovate to almost globose, not triangular, pale to light reddish brown with c. 10 transverse undulations.
BULBOSTYLIS somaliensis Lye subsp. confusa [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S1–3 not known elsewhere.
Slender annual; stems 5–20 cm long and 0.3–0.6 mm thick, angular, hairy or almost glabrous. Leaf-sheaths pale, densely hairy to almost glabrous with long hairs at the openings; blades usually less than 15 cm long and frequently only 1–2 cm long and 0.2–0.5 mm wide, flat or canaliculate, usually densely hairy. Inflorescence a simple or compound lax anthela of one sessile spikelet subtended by 2–many stalked spikelets or new groups of sessile and stalked spikelets, rarely all spikelets almost sessile. Involucral bracts usually shorter than the inflorescence. Spikelets 4–15 x 2–3 mm, ovate to elongate. Glumes 2–2.5 mm long, light to dark reddish brown, but often with paler midrib and margin, minutely hairy both on surface and margin. Nutlet 0.7–0.8 mm long, pale, grey or light brown, obovate, obtusely triangular with 7–10 rounded transverse wrinkles on each of the 3 sides; angles smooth; swollen style-base usually not persistent on the mature nutlet.
BULBOSTYLIS somaliensis (Chiov.) Lye subsp. microcarpa [family CYPERACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S1 not known elsewhere.
Slender tussocky annual. Stems 10–25 cm long and 0.3–0.5 mm thick, densely short hairy. Leaves with prominent red basal sheaths contrasting brightly with the long white hairs from the orifices of the leaf-sheaths; leaf-blades 2–10 cm long and 0.3–0.5 mm wide, flat or incurved, densely short hairy. Inflorescence a lax anthela of 1 sessile spikelet subtended by 1–8 solitary spikelets or groups of spikelets. Spikelets 4–6 x 1.5–2.5 mm, light brown, ovate to lanceolate. Glumes 1.7–2 mm long, light reddish brown, but often darker near the midrib above and paler near margin, but without prominent pale marginal border, densely short-hairy both on surface and margin. Nutlet 0.6–0.7 x 0.4–0.5 mm, obovate, white to light reddish brown, with 10–15 transverse wrinkles on each of the 3 sides; the angular ribs papillose.
Burnatia
BURNATIA Micheli [family ALISMATACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Genus of a single species in tropical and southern Africa only.
Perennial glabrous dioecious herbs. Leaves erect; blade linear-lanceolate to ovate. Inflorescence of whorls of 3 branches or 3 flowers. Male flowers with 3 + 3 tepals, 9 stamens and abortive carpels. Female flowers with outer tepals only. Carpels numerous, free; ovules solitary; style very short, lateral. Nutlets flattened with subcircular lateral flanges, glandular.
BURNATIA enneandra Micheli [family ALISMATACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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S1 widespread in tropical Africa south to South Africa.
Petioles up to 40 cm long; leaf-blade c. 13–16 x 1–7 cm, very variable in shape, acute at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base. Male inflorescence c. 20 cm long, of 1–5 whorls of branches; female inflorescence shorter. Male flowers with outer tepals 2–3 mm long and inner tepals c. 1 mm long. Female flowers with outer tepals c. 1.5 mm long and inner tepals minute or lacking. Nutlets 8–20, 1.5(–2.5) mm long.
Buxus
BUXUS L. [family BUXACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Genus of c. 30 species, sometimes split into several genera or, alternatively, divided into a complex infrageneric classification, widely distributed in tropical and southern Africa and on Madagascar, in central America, and in Eurasia.
Small, usually much-branched, glabrous trees and shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, leathery. Flowers in short, compact spikes, mostly consisting of a terminal female flower subtended by bracts in the axils of which 2–4 male flowers, or each inflorescence unisexual. Male flowers with 4 tepals, 2 outer and 2 inner ones, equal or unequal; stamens 4–6(–10), each opposite a tepal or more stamens at each tepal; anthers sessile, subsessile or on filaments, dorsifixed near the base, opening by longitudinal slits; rudimentary ovary truncate or 3-lobed at apex or absent. Female flowers with 4–6 tepals; staminodes absent; ovary 3-celled; styles 3; ovules 2 per cell. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing loculicidally, valves each with 2 apical horn-like projections representing remains of the styles; endocarp hard, separating from softer exocarp at maturity. Seeds usually 3-ridged or ovoid-oblong, with black, shining testa.
BUXUS hildebrandtii Baill. [family BUXACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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N1–3; C1 (one isolated locality in central Somalia, on a hillside towards the sea near “Obbia”)
Shrub or small tree to 6 m tall, sometimes (outside Flora area) forming a sizeable tree to 9 m, with trunks up to 15 cm in diam.; bark grey, with longitudinal fissures. Leaves obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic, dark grey-green, 2–5 x 0.5–2.5 cm, rounded or emarginate at apex, rarely apiculate, cuneate at base, leathery, with indistinct venation. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, subsessile or short-stalked, consisting of cymes of a terminal female flower surrounded by two male ones. Male flowers with 4 stamens, filaments c. 3 mm long, rudimentary ovary present. Capsule ovoid, 1–1.5 x c. 0.7 cm. Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown, shining, 5–7 mm long.
Cadaba
CADABA Forssk. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Genus of about 30 species in the drier regions of tropical and subtropical Africa, Madagascar, Asia and Australia.
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, alternate or clustered. Inflorescence a terminal, corymbose raceme, or flowers clustered or solitary in the leaf axils. Flowers zygomorphic. Receptacle flattened or shallowly concave. Sepals 4, imbricate, the outer pair concave, the inner pair thin and flattened. Petals 0 or 4, clawed, white or cream. Nectarial appendage arising from the base of the androphore, lower part tubular, upper part often petaloid and showy. Stamens 4–5; filaments free, sometimes decurrent along the gynophore. Gynophore often exceeding the stamens; ovary cylindrical or spindle-shaped, 1–2-celled, with capitate, sessile or subsessile stigma; ovules several, on 2(–4) placentas. Fruit cylindrical to ellipsoid, sometimes torulose, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds reniform, usually embedded in scarlet pulp.
CADABA baccarinii Chiov. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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N1–3; S1
Much-branched shrub 1–1.5 m tall; young twigs densely covered with sessile scales. Leaves alternate on the annual shoots, often clustered on older wood; blade linear-oblong or elliptic-oblong, leathery, 8–22 x 1.5–5 mm, apically obtuse or acute, basally rounded, farinose; petiole 0.8–1.5 mm long, farinose. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in 2–4(–5)-flowered racemes; rhachis up to 8–10 mm long; pedicels 10–18 mm long, farinose. Sepals 4, ovate, c. 7 x 4–6 mm, sparsely covered with sessile scales. Petals 4, with claw 5–6 mm long and elliptic- oblong blade up to 8 mm long. Androphore 8–15 mm long; appendage tubular, 8–10 mm long; stamens 4; filaments 8–10 mm long. Gynophore glabrous, up to 20 mm long; ovary cylindrical, densely glandular, 2–3 mm long; style c. 1 mm long; stigma reduced and flattened. Fruit cylindrical, 10–16 x 3–6 mm, densely covered with papillose glands.
CADABA barbigera Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE]
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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C2; S1
Shrub or small tree; young twigs pubescent with glandular hairs 0.3–0.4 mm long mixed with shorter simple hairs. Leaves alternate, rarely clustered; blade obovate-elliptic or oblong, 1.2–4.2 x 0.8–2.5 cm, puberulous, apically rounded to acute, mucronulate, basally rounded or subcordate; petiole 2–3 mm long, densely hairy. Raceme few-flowered, with glandular rhachis 0.7–2.1 cm long; bracts trifid; pedicels 2.2–3.7 cm long, glandular-hairy. Sepals 4, ovate, 7–9 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals 4, with claw 7–9 mm long and blade elliptic-oblong 5–8 mm long. Androphore 0.9–1.7 cm long; appendage tubular, apically enlarged, c. 1 cm long; stamens 4; filaments 1.2–1.5 cm long; anthers c. 3 mm long. Gynophore glandular-hairy, 0.9–1.3 cm long; ovary cylindrical, densely glandular, c. 4 mm long, with sessile, flattened stigma. Unripe fruit apparently torulose, densely covered with stalked glands.
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