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Arnebia hispidissima

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Identification
Arnebia hispidissima (Sieber ex Lehm.) DC. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Arnebia hispidissima
Common name
  • jinin mutum = blood of man; alluding to the deep red-coloured roots (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for ARNEBIA hispidissima (Lehm.) DC. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin (Argusia, Arnebia, Bourreria, Coldenia, Cynoglossum, Cystostemon, Echiochilon, Ehretia, Heliotropium, Nogalia, Trichodesma, Wellstedia) & A. M. Warfa (Cordia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ARNEBIA hispidissima (Lehm.) DC. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1846);
Lithospermum hispidissimum Lehm. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1821). Fig. 31. [type as above]
Arnebiola migiurtina Chiov. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1929);. types: N3, “Handa”, Puccioni & Stefanini 622 (FT syn.) & between “Dhur” and “Hossa Uein”, Puccioni & Stefanini 697 (FT syn.).
Information
Annual herb 2–20 cm tall, hispid with tubercle-based bristles and short hairs. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 0.5–7.5 x 0.1–1 cm, acute or subacute. Flowers in spike-like cymes, subsessile, heterostylous; bracts leaf-like. Calyx 5-8 mm long, lobes linear, hispid, hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla yellow, salver-shaped, 8–16 mm long, pubescent outside; lobes 1–2 mm long. Anthers oblong, c. 1.5 mm long. Style 2-fid; stigmas 2. Nutlets pyramidal-ovoid, 1.5–2 mm long, smooth or minutely tuberculate, with a triangular areole.
Range
N1–3 Djibouti, Eritrea, Socotra, Sudan, Egypt, Chad, West tropical Africa, Arabian Peninsula and eastwards to Pakistan.
Altitude range
50–850 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 16273; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 9237; Warfa 1005.
Notes
Duq-u-roone, fodadah, haji mali (Som.).The red dye in the roots is used as a cosmetic.

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