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Anticharis arabica

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Name

Identification
Meissarrhena tomentosa R.Br. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Anticharis arabica Endl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Anticharis linearis
  • Meissarrhena tomentosa
  • Doratanthera linearis
  • Anticharis arabica
  • Anticharis latifolia
  • Capraria arabica

Flora

Entry for ANTICHARIS arabica Endl. [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
ANTICHARIS arabica Endl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1839);
Capraria arabica (Endl.) Steud. & Hochst. ex Steud. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1840). Fig. 179. [type as above]
Information
Annual slender herb, not or sparsely branched, glandular-villous, up to c. 30 cm high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear, up to 3 x 0.5 cm. Pedicels up to 0.8 cm long, with bracteoles inserted near the middle. Corolla blue to mauve, sometimes viscid, with rounded lobes. Anthers hairy on the back, basal lobes obtuse. Capsule narrowly ovoid, acuminate or beaked, twice as long as the calyx.
Range
N1–3; C1; S1
Altitude range
up to 1050 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4657; Collenette 218; Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6948.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
S Egypt
Arabia
Socotra
Notes
Dia tiri, indatire (Som.).

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