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Caralluma socotrana

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Identification
Caralluma socotrana (Balf.f.) N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Caralluma socotrana

Flora

Entry for SANGUILLUMA socotrana (Balf. f.) Plowes [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
SANGUILLUMA socotrana (Balf. f.) Plowes [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1995);
Boucerosia socotrana Balf. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1884);. [type as above]
Caralluma socotrana (Balf. f.) N.E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1892);. [type as above]
Monolluma socotrana (Balf. f.) Meve & Liede [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (2002). Fig. 124A. Plate 2B. [type as above]
Caralluma corrugata N.E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1912);. type: Somalia, without precise locality but probably N1 or N2, Drake-Brockman 477 & 478 (K syn.).
Information
Plants forming clumps up to 30 cm tall and wide; stems pale green to bluish-green with brownish- or blackish-green tubercles. Pedicels c. 5 mm long. Corolla c. 20 mm wide; tube yellow with red or brownish dots, limb vivid red or brownish-red with concentric, darker ridges; lobes broadly triangular with marked sinuses between them, uniformly dark red. Corona 3.5–4 mm high, dark purple-red, the outer lobes so deeply divided that they look like basal appendages of the inner lobes.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1, 2
Altitude range
120–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lavranos 6745, 6915; Lavranos & Bavazzano 8572.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Ethiopia
Kenya

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