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Caralluma acutangula

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Name

Identification
Caralluma acutangula (Decne.) N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.K. Ouedraogo, 2011
Related name
  • Caralluma hirtiflora
  • Caralluma tumbuctuensis
  • Caralluma acutangula
  • Boucerosia tombuctuensis
  • Boucerosia russeliana
  • Caralluma retrospiciens
  • Caralluma russelliana

Flora

Entry for DESMIDORCHIS retrospiciens Ehrenb. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DESMIDORCHIS retrospiciens Ehrenb. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1832);
Caralluma retrospiciens Ehrenb. ex N.E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1904). Fig. 124D. [type as above]
DESMIDORCHIS acutangula Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1838);
Caralluma acutangula (Decne.) N.E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1892);. [type as above]
Boucerosia acutangula (Decne.) Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1844). [type as above]
Boucerosia russeliana Brogn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1860);
Caralluma russeliana (Brogn.) Cuf. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1969), as “ russelliana ”. [type as above]
Information
Plants erect, very robust, up to 150 cm tall and forming large clumps; stems erect, not rooting adventitiously, olive- to grey-green, up to 70 mm wide, the angles conspicuously winged with closely set usually prominent and often reflexed teeth. Flowers in very large terminal cluster of umbel-like inflorescences; pedicels 4–6 cm long. Corolla 15–20 mm wide, rotate or shallowly saucer-shaped, brown to almost black, rugulose, glabrous or variously pubescent; lobes broadly ovate-triangular. Corona same colour as the corolla, hairy, outer lobes divided into 2 erect but recurved horns.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 the sub-Saharan belt from Sudan to Mauritania,
Altitude range
from near sea level to c. 1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lavranos 7270; Lavranos & Horwood 10096; Lavranos, Carter & al. 23463A.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Uganda
Saudi Arabia
Yemen

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