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Boerhavia dichotoma

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Identification
Boerhavia dichotoma Vahl [family NYCTAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Fenzl, E.,
Related name
  • Boerhavia plumbaginea
  • Boerhavia verticellata
  • Commicarpus plumbagineus
  • Boerhavia dichotoma
  • Commicarpus boissieri
  • Boerhavia grandiflora
  • Boerhavia pentandra
  • Commicarpus grandiflorus

Flora

Entry for COMMICARPUS plumbagineus (Cav.) Standl. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: CHRISTOPHER WHITEHOUSE
Names
COMMICARPUS plumbagineus (Cav.) Standl. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 18: 101 (1916); Balle in F.C.B. 2: 88 (1951); Meikle in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 177 (1954); Heriz-Smith, Wild Fl. Nairobi Roy. Nat. Park: 27 (1962); Meikle in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 36: 244, fig. 2J (1978); Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 1: 206, fig. 44/1 (1978); Stannard in F.Z. 9(1): 16 (1988); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 55, t. 43 (1992); Thulin, Fl. Somalia 1: 172 (1993); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 84, t. 20 (1994). Type: t. 112 in Cav., Icones 2 (1793), from Orihuela [“ad radices Orcellitani montis”], Spain
Boerhavia plumbaginea Cav. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], Icones 2: 7, t. 112 (1793); P.O.A. C: 174 (1895); Rendle in J.L.S. 37: 201 (1905); Baker & C.H. Wright in F.T.A. 6(1): 6 (1909)
Boerhavia dichotoma Vahl [family NYCTAGINACEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 290 (1804). Type: Arabia, Forsskål (C, holo.)
Boerhavia verticillata Poir. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], in Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot. 5: 56 (1804). Type: Senegal, Roussillon (P-LA, holo.)
Boerhavia commersonii Baill. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 484 (1885). Type: N. Madagascar, without precise locality, Commerson (P, holo.)
Commicarpus verticillatus (Poir.) Standl. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 18: 101 (1916)
Boerhavia africana [family NYCTAGINACEAE], [sensu Merr. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 24(2): 150 (1935), non Lour.]
Commicarpus africanus [family NYCTAGINACEAE], [sensu Dandy in F.P.S. 1: 152, fig. 91 (1950), quoad descr., non C. africanus (Lour.) Dandy]
Commicarpus commersonii (Baill.) Cavaco [family NYCTAGINACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 100: 297 (1953) & Fl. Madag. 68: 8 (1954)
Information
Prostrate or scrambling, glabrous to puberulous perennial; stems up to 3 m. long, woody towards the base. Leaves ovate, up to 9.5 cm. long, 8 cm. wide, the base cordate, truncate or cuneate, apex acute or rounded, sometimes apiculate, margins sinuate, unpleasantly aromatic ( fide Tanner 4115) or not. Inflorescence an umbel, often with a verticel of flowers below, on a peduncle up to 15 cm. long. Flowers infundibuliform, 8–12(–16) mm. long, 3–8(–11) mm. wide; upper perianth white, rarely very pale pink or mauve, green base and stripes, 6–9(–13) mm. long with a narrow perianth tube. Stamens ± 3; filaments white; anthers pink to purple. Style white; stigma pale pink. Anthocarps terete to narrowly clavate, 7–9 mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, with a ring of stalked glands around the apex and a few scattered sessile glands below. Fig. 3/1–3.
Range
DISTR. U 1–4; K 1–7; T 1–7 found from Senegal to Somalia and south to South Africa (Transvaal and Natal), also Madagascar, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and S. Spain
Altitude range
100–2000 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Kangole, Dec. 1957, J. Wilson 418!;KENYA Northern Frontier Province Ndoto Mts., above Ngurunit [Ngoronit], 6 Aug. 1978, Cameron, Evans & Powys 317!;TANZANIA Musoma District Banagi, 100 m. N. of bridge in Mugungu R., 16 Oct. 1966, H.M.H. Braun 52!;UGANDA Busoga District Jinja, Aug. 1904, E. Brown 89!;UGANDA Mbale District S. Bugisu, Bubulo, Norman 242!KENYA Naivasha District edge of Lake Naivasha, 24 Dec. 1950, Verdcourt 405!;KENYA Machakos District Kibwezi Forest at Umani Swamp, 11 June 1981, Mungai 10!TANZANIA Handeni District Handeni–Sindeni–Korogwe road, 1 Aug. 1954, Faulkner 1483!;TANZANIA Singida District Lake Kitangiri, Chem Chem mission, 3 Nov. 1960, Richards 13497!

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