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Chrozophora oblongifolia

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Name

Identification
Croton oblongifolius Delile [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Chrozophora oblongifolia (Delile) A.Juss. ex Spreng. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by D.P., 1911
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  • Croton oblongifolius
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Flora

Entry for CHROZOPHORA oblongifolia (Del.) A. Juss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CHROZOPHORA oblongifolia (Del.) A. Juss. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1824). Fig. 162.
Information
Subshrub to 50 cm high, all parts except ovary stellate-hairy. Leaves lanceolate, often obscurely 3-lobed, 4–8 x 1.5–5 cm, subacute to obtuse, obtuse-dentate to subentire, slightly plicate when young, soon flat. Inflorescence up to 2.5 cm long with 1–few female branches at base. Male flowers dense, subsessile; sepals c. 3 mm long; petals shorter, yellowish; anthers 5–10. Female flower on 1–3-flowered peduncles, reflexed and up to 4 cm long in fruit; pedicels 6–20 mm; sepals linear, c. 3 mm long; petals resembling sepals; ovary covered with peltate scales. Capsule c. 6 x 9 mm, muricate, sparsely scaly, turning purplish. Seeds oblong-ovoid, 6 x 4 mm, rugose, dark brown under persistent shiny brown skin.
Range
N1–3 Red Sea coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Socotra, east to NW India.
Altitude range
10–1200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5544; Gillett 4514, 22923.
Notes
Mara madoobeye (Som.).

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