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Alsine schimperi

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Identification
Alsine schimperi Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Minuartia filifolia (Forssk.) Mattf. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Minuartia filifolia
  • Alsine schimperi
  • Minuartia ellenbeckii
  • Arenaria schimperi

Flora

Entry for MINUARTIA ellenbeckii (Engl.) M. Gilbert [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MINUARTIA ellenbeckii (Engl.) M. Gilbert [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], (1991);
Alsine schimperi Engl. var. erlangeriana [family ], (1906) nom. nud.;. [type as above]
Alsine schimperi Engl. var. ellenbeckii [family ], Bot. Jahrb. 48: 381 (1912);. [type as above]
MINUARTIA filifolia Chiov. var. erlangeriana [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], (1939). [type as above]
Information
Mat-forming to erect woody-based perennial herb or subshrub, stems to 30 cm long, sparsely glandular-hispidulous. Leaves mostly clustered on reduced lateral shoots, needle-like 5–17 x 0.1–0.2 mm, glabrous. Cymes terminal on leafy branches, often 6- or more-flowered; pedicels up to 5–18 mm long, densely glandular-hispidulous. Sepals lanceolate, long-acute to -acuminate, 4–6 mm long, prominently 3-veined, base glabrous to densely puberulous. Petals oblanceolate, obtuse, up to as long as sepals, white. Stamens c. 2/3rds as long as sepals. Styles 1–1.5 mm long. Capsule ovoid, 3.5–4.5 mm long, splitting into 3 separate valves. Seeds angular-cochleate, 0.8–1 x 0.6–0.8 mm, obtusely tuberculate, dark brown.
Range
N1, 2
Altitude range
1650–2050 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Tribe in Bally 11911; Drake-Brockman 553; Gillett & Watson 23828.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
?Kenya (Mt Nyiru)
Notes
Closely related to M. filifolia from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania and Arabia which differs by the prominently spiny seeds.

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