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Bovea sinaica

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Filed as Lindenbergia sinaica (Decne.) Bové ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Filed as Lindenbergia sinaica (Decne.) Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Lindenbergia sinaica Benth. [family OROBANCHACEAE]
Filed as Lindenbergia sinaica (Decne.) Bové ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Isotype of Bovea sinaica Decne. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Filed as Lindenbergia indica (L.) Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Filed as Lindenbergia indica (L.) Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Filed as Lindenbergia sinaica (Decne.) Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Bovea sinaica Decne. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Lindenbergia arabica (L.) Vatke [family OROBANCHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Lindenbergia sinaica
  • Bovea sinaica
  • Lindenbergia arabica

Flora

Entry for LINDENBERGIA sinaica Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
LINDENBERGIA sinaica Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Scroph. Ind. 22. —DC. Prodr. x. 377; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 425; Almagià in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 139.
Bovea sinaica Decaisne [family ], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 me sér., ii. 253.
Information
A divaricately much branched densely glandular-pilose undershrub; branches up to about 1 ft. long. Lower leaves suborbicular-ovate or ovate, 3–7 lin. long and broad, usually shortly petiolate, coarsely crenate-dentate, acute or obtuse, rounded or cuneate at the base; uppermost leaves sessile, smaller, shorter than the calyx. Flowers opposite in loose secund racemes 6–12 in. long; pedicels 1/2–1 1/2 lin. long. Calyx 1 1/2–2 lin. long, densely glandular pilose; teeth ovate or ovate-elliptic, unequal, 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, acute. Corolla 7–8 lin. long. Capsule oblong, slightly longer than the calyx, glandular-pilose above.
Distribution
Nile Land Red Sea: Harnish Island, Slade, 12!Eritrea Nile Land various localities, Terracciano & Pappi.
Distribution (external)
Egypt
Arabia
Socotra

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