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Bridelia somalensis

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Name

Identification
Bridelia somalensis Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for BRIDELIA somalensis Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
BRIDELIA somalensis Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1931);. type: N2, “Marojeh” in Ahl Mts (10°54’N, 48°59’E), Collenette 224 (K holo.).
Information
Multistemmed shrub or small tree 2–4.5(–7) m high; bark smooth, grey; glabrous except for stipule margins. Petiole 3–7 mm, dark; stipules ± triangular, up to 3.5 x 1 mm, margin minutely hairy; leaf-blade oblong-elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 5.5–7.5 x 2–3.5 cm, base rounded to truncate, tip acute to rounded, lateral veins 10–14 each side, looping or branching before margin, tertiary veins prominent, ± parallel, underside prominently reticulate, upper side blackish when dried, underside grey. Flowers similar to those of B. cathartica. Ripe fruits with 2 pyrenes, globose, c. 6.5 mm diam., yellow.
Range
N2, 3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
400–700(–1340) m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 6010; Beckett 546; Gillett & Hemming 24898.

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