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Caralluma congestiflora

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Identification
Caralluma congestiflora P.R.O.Bally [family APOCYNACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CARALLUMA congestiflora Bally [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
CARALLUMA congestiflora Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1965);. type: N1, Hargeisa, E of township, Bally 11996 (K holo., G iso.). Fig. 123A–C.
Spathulopetalum congestiflorum (Bally) Plowes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1995);. type: N1, Hargeisa, E of township, Bally 11996 (K holo., G iso.). Fig. 123A–C.
Information
Plants about 30 cm high, densely branched; stems to 22 mm thick, not rooting adventitiously, acutely 4-angled and with small acute marginal teeth, the flower-bearing part of the stem wiry, thin, 4-angled. Flowers 24 or more together in fairly densely spaced clusters; pedicels 7–15 mm long pedicels. Corolla rotate, divided practically to the base, 15 mm across, green outside, yellow with greenish bands towards centre inside; lobes lanceolate, with 2–5 purple versatile hairs at tips. Corona yellow, cup-shaped, with erect shortly 2-fid outer lobes and narrowly triangular inner lobes incumbent on anthers.
Range
N1–3; C1 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
from near sea level up to 1350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Glover & Gilliland 1123; Lavranos & Horwood 10169; Lavranos, Carter & al. 23381.
Notes
Gauratu (Som.).

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