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Breweria evolvuloides

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Isotype of Breweria oxycarpa Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Seddera arabica (Forssk.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Breweria oxycarpa Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Filed as Seddera evolvuloides (Choisy) Wight [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Type of Breweria evolvuloides Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Breweria evolvuloides Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Breweria oxycarpa Hochst. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Seddera arabica Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sebsebe Demissew, Isotype of Breweria oxycarpa Hochst. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Sebsebe Demissew, Breweria evolvuloides R.Br. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Evolvulus alsinoides
  • Breweria oxycarpa
  • Seddera arabica
  • Breweria evolvuloides

Flora

Entry for SEDDERA latifolia Hochst. & Steud. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
SEDDERA latifolia Hochst. & Steud. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Flora, 1844, Beil. 8, t. 5; figs. B, C. —Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 440; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 88; Capua in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 221 (incl. varieties).
Breweria argentea Terrac. [family ], in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 104.
Breweria evolvuloides Vatke [family ], in Linnæa, xliii. 523, not of Choisy.
Breweria latifolia Hochst. [family ], l.c.; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 224.
Cressa latifolia T. Anders. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 25 (excl. syn.).
Information
A much-branched, low under-shrub with slender, woody branchlets, clothed with dense, short, velvety-white pubescence. Leaves broadly elliptic, rigidulous, shortly stalked, 2–4 lin. long, clothed with short adpressed white hairs above and beneath, apex and base generally rounded, the former sometimes inconspicuously mucronate. Flowers subsessile, solitary in the axils of the leaves or aggregated into short bracteated terminal spikes. Sepals subequal, obovate, coriaceous and rigid with acute herbaceous apex, 2 lin. long, back pubescent like the leaves. Corolla not exceeding the calyx; limb 2 lin. in diam. when expanded; tips of midpetaline areas densely hairy. Stamens equal, glabrous; filaments dilated at the base, with short rounded appendages. Ovary obovoid, upper portion hirsute; style divided to the base; stigmas orbicular. Capsule 1 1/2 lin. in diam., splitting into 4 rigid valves. Seeds narrowly ovoid, blackish, glabrous, 1 lin. long.
Range
through Arabia to Scind and the Punjab.
Distribution
Nile Land Macaur Island, on the Nubian coast, Schweinfurth, 2158!Eritrea Nile Land Bure Peninsula, Hildebrandt, 741B! Ailet, Ehrenberg; Massowa, Samhar. Hildebrandt, 733! Mount Ghedem, near Massowa, 500–1000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 109! Hamfilah Bay, Terraciano, 19! Assaorta, numerous localities, Terraciano & Pappi.Abyssinia Nile Land near Gageros, 3500 ft., Schimper, 2287!
Distribution (external)
Socotra

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