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Boerhavia plumbaginea

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Name

Identification
Commicarpus decipiens Meikle [family NYCTAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Boerhavia plumbaginea Cav. [family NYCTAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Boerhavia plumbaginea
  • Boerhavia burchelli
  • Boerhavia verticellata
  • Commicarpus decipiens
  • Boerhavia scandens
  • Boerhavia dregeana
  • Commicarpus plumbagineus
  • Boerhavia dichotoma
  • Commicarpus boissieri
  • Commicarpus fallacissimus
  • Boerhavia grandiflora
  • Commicarpus pilosus

Flora

Entry for COMMICARPUS plumbagineus (Cav.) Standl. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
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
COMMICARPUS plumbagineus (Cav.) Standl. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], (1916);
Boerhavia plumbaginea Cav. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], (1793). [type as above]
COMMICARPUS verticillatus (Poir.) Standl. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], (1916).
COMMICARPUS africanus [family NYCTAGINACEAE], sensu Cuf. (1953), non (Lour.) Dandy.
Information
Stems trailing or scandent, to at least 4 m high, becoming ± woody; most parts usually sparsely puberulous to subglabrous. Leaf-blade ovate or suborbicular, up to 2–9 x 2–7 cm, broadly cuneate to subcordate at the base, rounded to acute at the apex, rarely subacuminate, entire or obscurely sinuate. Flowers in umbels and whorls usually aggregated into irregular panicles; pedicels 4–11 mm long in fruit. Perianth-limb white, 7–11 mm long. Stamens 3. Anthocarp ± cylindrical, 6.5–8 mm long, with 1–2 subapical whorls of stalked glands and a few scattered, sometimes rather obscure, sessile glands.
Range
N1, 2; C1, 2; S2 tropical Africa
Altitude range
125–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3904; Thulin & Warfa 4654; Wood S/73/11.
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
S Arabia
Palestine
S Spain
Notes
Ged irman (Som.). Material from Namibia and Botswana with hairier stems and fruits has been separated as var. trichocarpa (Heimerl) Meikle.A sterile specimen from sea-level in S3 (Kismayo), DRB 1278, may be wrongly labelled.

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