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Canthium glaucum

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Name

Identification
Canthium frangula S.Moore [family RUBIACEAE ] Canthium glaucum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Canthium hiernii
  • Plectronia glauca
  • Canthium frangula
  • Canthium racemulosum
  • Vangueria unrecorded
  • Canthium glaucum

Flora

Entry for CANTHIUM glaucum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CANTHIUM glaucum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877);. type: S3, “Tula” R., Kirk s.n. (K lecto.). Fig. 57.
Information
Shrub, 1–5 m tall, armed with up to 2 cm long spines situated above very abbreviated short shoots. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, 1.5–6 x 1–3 cm, acute to obtuse at the apex, domatia present as small tufts of hairs, otherwise glabrous (in Somalia); stipules apiculate, 1–4 mm long, densely hairy within. Flowers (4–)5-merous, bisexual, in 2–8-flowered cymes; pedicels 3–10 mm long. Calyx-limb with triangular lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Corolla whitish; tube 1–1.25 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs at throat and pubescent immediately above; lobes 2–2.5 mm long, ± apiculate. Fruit pale red, edible, 9–12 mm long and wide, ± square in outline, with 2 stones.
Range
C1, 2; S2, 3 subsp. frangula (S. Moore) Bridson in southern tropical Africa.
Altitude range
10–225 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 392; Gillett & Hemming 24586; Friis, Alstrup & Michelsen 4660.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Notes
Garorshe, timir dur (Som.).The Somali plant is subsp. glaucum.

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