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Capparis somalensis

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Name

Identification
Capparis somalensis Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Capparis fascicularis DC. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Capparis fascicularis
  • Capparis somalensis

Flora

Entry for CAPPARIS fascicularis DC. [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
CAPPARIS fascicularis DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1824).
CAPPARIS somalensis Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE], (1897).
Information
Shrub 3–5 m tall, with climbing or scrambling branches up to 10 m long; young twigs densely covered with medifixed hairs. Leaf-blades elliptic-ovate, 1–3.5 x 0.7–2 cm, apically retuse or rounded, shortly mucronulate, basally cuneate, sparsely covered with medifixed hairs when young; petiole 4–7 mm long, covered with medifixed hairs. Flowers clustered in the leaf axils or more rarely in short axillary racemes; pedicels 5–15 mm long, densely pubescent. Sepals c. 3–4 mm long, hairy outside. Petals oblong, up to 6–7 mm long, puberulous. Stamens up to about 20, 8–10 mm long. Gynophore 4–9 mm long; ovary ellipsoid, c. 1.5–2 mm long, with flattened-capitate stigma on a short style. Fruit globose or ovoid, up to 1.7 cm in diam., spotty, reddish.
Range
S2 widespread in tropical Africa.
Altitude range
100–200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Senni 659.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Notes
The Somali material belongs to var. fascicularis. Two further varieties are recorded from East Africa in Fl. Trop. E. Afr.

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