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Boscia angustifolia

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Name

Identification
Boscia angustifolia Harv. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Maerua gilgii Schinz [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Boscia fischeri
  • Boscia patens
  • Boscia engleri
  • Boscia homblei
  • Boscia intermedia
  • Boscia unrecorded
  • Boscia angustifolia
  • Boscia dawei
  • Boscia caloneura
  • Boscia welwitschii
  • Boscia mossambicensis
  • Maerua gilgii
  • Boscia reticulata
  • `angustifolia
Common name
  • gigile, jigile (PF) (NIGER, FULA-FULFULDE (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nos pronounced nasally (DF) (THE GAMBIA, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • d́âba ginad́u (Aub.; K&A) ginégu (Aub.; K&A) somô késébéré (Aub.; K&A) t́ékoni kolo (Aub.; K&A) tutiǵi (Aub.; K&A) (SENEGAL, MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • anzagi from Hausa (JMD; KO&S) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • agahini (Aub.) (NIGER, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hassu (Aub.) (MALI, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kiréwi (K&A) tirewi (K&A) tirey (K&A) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bèrédé (JB, ex K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tadent (JMD) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nos (auctt.) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dâbâ dâbâ (K&A) isus (K&A) sus (K&A) (SENEGAL, SERER-NON (Nyominka)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sáncílígà (pl.-à) (D&C) (NIGER, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ga-mẹnε-mẹnε (Ferry) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • diaba guinadiu (Aub.) guineguiu (Aub.) somon késébéré (Aub.) tiekoni kolo (Aub.) tutigui (Aub.) (MALI, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dilo (JMD) ‘false’ anza in distinction from ‘anza’, B. senegalensis (KO&S) hamza (ZOG) hanza (MM) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • a-mìď σ-ráw̃ (Ferry) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • diaba guinadiu (Aub.) guineguiu (Aub.) somon késébéré (Aub.) tiekoni kolo (Aub.) tutigui (Aub.) (GUINEA, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tadent (JMD) (NIGER, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ndeyis (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for BOSCIA angustifolia A. Rich. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
BOSCIA angustifolia A. Rich. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1831).
Information
Shrub or small tree up to 7–8 m tall, with smooth greyish bark; young twigs glabrous or puberulous. Leaves alternate on twigs of the current year, clustered on older wood; blade elliptic, oblanceolate or obovate, 2–4.5 x 0.7–2 cm, rigid, pale green, apically rounded or subacute, mucronulate, basally cuneate, glabrous, with midrib and lateral nerves often prominent above; petiole 3–5 mm long. Racemes terminal or axillary, dense, corymbose; rhachis glabrous or puberulous, 3–6 cm long; bracts 4–5 mm long, ciliate-pubescent; pedicels puberulous, 6–8 mm long, thickened in fruit. Sepals ovate-elliptic, 4–5 x 1.5–2 mm, puberulous. Receptacle disk fimbriate. Stamens (5–)8(–9); filaments 2–4 mm long; anthers c. 1 mm long. Gynophore glabrous, c. 1–2 mm long; ovary ovoid, 1–1.7 mm long, with flattened-capitate, subsessile stigma. Fruit globose, up to 12 mm in diam., sometimes papillose, reddish-grey.
Range
N1; S1 from Senegal to the Horn of Africa and Arabia, southwards to Tanzania.
Altitude range
up to c. 1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & Hemming 24903; Glover & Gilliland 530.
Notes
The Somali plant is var. angustifolia; var. corymbosa (Gilg) DeWolf occurs in East Africa and south to Zimbabwe and Botswana.

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