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Abutilon anglosomaliae

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Name

Identification
Abutilon anglosomaliae Cufod. ex Thulin [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Abutilon molle Baker [family MALVACEAE ]
Related name
  • Abutilon molle
  • Abutilon anglosomaliae

Flora

Entry for ABUTILON anglosomaliae Cuf. ex Thulin [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ABUTILON anglosomaliae Cuf. ex Thulin [family MALVACEAE], (1998);. type: N1, “plains below the Golis range”, Cole & Lort Phillips s.n. (K holo.). Fig. 46 I. Plate 2 C.
ABUTILON molle Bak. [family MALVACEAE], (1895), nom. illeg., non (Ort.) Sweet (1830);. type: N1, “plains below the Golis range”, Cole & Lort Phillips s.n. (K holo.). Fig. 46 I. Plate 2 C.
Information
Subshrub, up to 1.5 m or more tall; stems and leaves pubescent to tomentose. Leaves with 1.5–10 cm long petiole; blade suborbicular, up to 10.5 x 12 cm, cordate at the base, shortly acuminate to rounded or emarginate at the apex, with usually sharply dentate margins. Flowers in ± leafless densely glandular-pubescent and sticky panicles, also with long simple hairs; pedicels 1–4.5 cm long. Calyx 5–9 mm long, densely glandular-pubescent. Petals 15–25 mm long, yellow to orange. Staminal column with scattered stellate hairs all over. Mericarps 10–16, 10–13 x 5–6 mm, c. 3-seeded, dorsal corner angled or with an up to 0.5 mm long awn. Seeds c. 2.5 mm long, with short simple curled hairs.
Range
N1; C1; S1
Altitude range
90–880 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7323; Hansen & Heemstra 6179; Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 291.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
NE Kenya
Notes
Balambal (Som.).

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