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Anticharis senegalensis

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Name

Identification
Anticharis longifolia Marloth&Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Anticharis senegalensis (Walp.) Bhandari [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Anticharis linearis
  • Anticharis azurea
  • Anticharis longifolia
  • Anticharis senegalensis

Flora

Entry for ANTICHARIS senegalensis (Walp.) Bhandari [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 senegalensis (Walp.) Bhandari [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1965);
Doratanthera senegalensis Walp. [family ], (1844);. [type as above]
Doratanthera linearis Benth. [family ], (1846);. [type as above]
ANTICHARIS linearis (Benth.) Hochst. ex Aschers. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1867). [type as above]
Information
Annual herb, much branched, glandular-pubescent, up to c. 50 cm high, usually blue-black when dry. Leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, up to 5 x 0.4 cm. Pedicels up to c. 2 cm long, with bracteoles usually inserted above the middle. Corolla blue to pale mauve. Anthers ciliate, basal lobes acuminate. Capsule ovoid, acuminate or beaked, about twice as long as the calyx.
Range
N1 south to south-central Africa
Altitude range
up to 1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Peck 65; White 189.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Chad
Cape Verde Is
Arabia
western India
Notes
Dia tiri, eba roah (Som.).

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