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Clutia lanceolata

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Name

Identification
Clutia lanceolata Forssk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Clutia myricoides
  • Clutia lanceolata
  • Clutia richardiana
  • Clutia robusta
  • Clutia abyssinica

Flora

Entry for CLUTIA lanceolata Forssk. [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
CLUTIA lanceolata Forssk. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1775).
Information
Very similar to C. abyssinica but often persistently hairy, stems more robust, leaves often narrower, 4–7.5 x 1.1–2.2 cm, male flowers with 10–33 disc-glands, fruiting pedicels not over 7 mm long, fruits sometimes densely hairy (glabrous in Flora area).
Range
N2, 3 subsp. robusta (Pax) M. Gilbert in East Africa.
Altitude range
1700–2100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10286; Glover & Gilliland 551; Hemming 1945.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Arabia
Notes
The Somali collections belong to subsp. lanceolata with male flowers having (19–)20–33 disc-glands, but have a very distinctive appearance due to the unusually robust stems and thick indumentum combined with glabrous capsules. In subsp. robusta the male flowers normally have only 10(–20) disc glands.

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