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Bergia suffruticosa

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Name

Identification
Bergia suffruticosa (Delile) Fenzl [family ELATINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bergia suffruticosa
Common name
  • baábán giíwaá = elephant’s indigo (JMD; ZOG) bushi (JMD; ZOG) δaìδoóyàr-к̉ásà (JMD; ZOG) δandoyar kasa (ZOG) dushiya (auctt.) jishiya (JMD; ZOG) kasa (ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • jerk (JB) jirk (JB) zerk (JB) (SENEGAL, ARABIC (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • dévé (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • dalligéré (JB) dialli (JB) ñipé (JB) ñipéré (K&A; JB) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ñoméré (JB) ñomré (JB) sagoro (K&A; JB) samtardé (JB) (SENEGAL, TUKULOR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for BERGIA suffruticosa (Del.) Fenzl [family ELATINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
BERGIA suffruticosa (Del.) Fenzl [family ELATINACEAE], (1841). Fig. 48.
Information
Spreading shrublet, aromatic, up to 60 cm tall, young parts usually hairy. Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, 2–30 x 1–10 mm, crenate, sometimes with revolute margins; stipules 1.5–2.5 mm long. Flowers solitary or in small axillary fascicles; pedicels 1–5 mm long. Sepals ovate, acute to acuminate, 2.5–5 mm long, keeled, medially usually pubescent, with membranous margins. Petals about as long as sepals, obovate, white to pink. Stamens 10. Ovary ovoid; styles c. 1 mm long. Capsule ovoid; seeds 0.5–0.6 mm long, faintly reticulate.
Range
C1, 2; S3 Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Egypt to Senegal and Mauritania, Arabia, Pakistan, W India.
Altitude range
c. 50–300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kuchar 16074, 16886; Rose Innes & Trump 900/A.
Notes
Daremo (Som.). Some of the Somali material seen has strongly revolute leaf-margins, making the leaves appear entire. Gillett, Hemming & Watson 21898, the only specimen seen from C1 (gypseous sand near Gaalkacyo) differs from all other material in being glabrous. Otherwise it seems to fall entirely within the variation range of B. suffruticosa, but further study is desirable, also in relation to the following species.

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