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Caralluma moniliformis

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Name

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

Entry for CARALLUMA moniliformis 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 moniliformis Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1965);. type: N2, eastern “Al Madu” Range at “Agasur”, Bally 11018 (G holo.). Fig. 123D–G.
Spathulopetalum moniliforme (Bally) Plowes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1995);. type: N2, eastern “Al Madu” Range at “Agasur”, Bally 11018 (G holo.). Fig. 123D–G.
Information
Plants to 25 cm tall, sparsely branched from a short central stem c. 20 mm thick, greyish-green, with rounded blackish-green angles and marginal 2–4 mm long conical teeth; flower-bearing portion of stems fleshy, about 4 mm thick, circular in section, with regular, rather closely-set constrictions. Flowers pendent in few-flowered clusters from the constrictions in the upper portion of the stems; pedicels ca. 5 mm long, filiform. Corolla deep purplish red inside, glaucous green with purple markings outside, with a short tube and narrow, claw-shaped, erect lobes with incurved connivent tips, c. 6 mm long, with numerous, stiff, dark purple hairs along margins. Corona relatively long, protruding from corolla-tube; outer lobes erect or slightly inflexed; inner lobes incumbent on the anthers, connivent-erect in upper part.
Range
N2, 3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1100–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lavranos 7296; Lavranos & Bavazzano 8546.

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