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Conostomium longitubum

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Name

Identification
Oldenlandia fasciculata Hiern [family RUBIACEAE ] Conostomium longitubum (Beck) Cufod. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Oldenlandia rotata
  • Conostomium longitubum
  • Oldenlandia schimperi
  • Oldenlandia rhynchotheca
  • Oldenlandia fasciculata
  • Oldenlandia unrecorded
  • Conostomium hispidulum

Flora

Entry for CONOSTOMIUM longitubum (Beck) Cuf. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CONOSTOMIUM longitubum (Beck) Cuf. [family RUBIACEAE], (1948);
Oldenlandia longituba Beck [family RUBIACEAE], (1888). Fig. 42. [type as above]
Oldenlandia rotata Bak. [family RUBIACEAE], (1895);. types: N1, ”Golis” Range, Cole s.n. & Lort Phillips s.n. (K syn.).
CONOSTOMIUM rotatum (Bak.) Cuf. [family RUBIACEAE], (1948);. types: N1, ”Golis” Range, Cole s.n. & Lort Phillips s.n. (K syn.).
Oldenlandia fasciculata Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1899);. type: N1, ”Wagga” Mt, Lort Phillips s.n. (BM holo., K iso.).
CONOSTOMIUM fasciculatum (Hiern) Cuf. [family RUBIACEAE], (1948);. type: N1, ”Wagga” Mt, Lort Phillips s.n. (BM holo., K iso.).
Oldenlandia rhynchotheca K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], (1903);
CONOSTOMIUM rhynchothecum (K. Schum.) Cuf. [family RUBIACEAE], (1948). [type as above]
CONOSTOMIUM hispidulum Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1952);. type: N2, between “Balli Iglole” and “Bei Dagoi”, Puccioni & Stefanini 873 (FT holo.).
CONOSTOMIUM kenyense Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1952).
Information
Subshrub or shrub, 0.2–2.5 m tall; young stems 4-angular, glabrous to scabrid or shortly pubescent. Leaf-blades linear to lanceolate, 10–70 x 2–7 mm, acute at the apex, glabrous to scabrid, usually with revolute margins; stipule sheath 0.5–2.5 mm long, mostly with a few short fimbriae. Flowers fragrant, sessile or pedicellate, forming spike-like, raceme-like or corymbose inflorescences; pedicels up to c. 10 mm long. Calyx-lobes linear to lanceolate, 1–6 mm long. Corolla white or cream, often tinged with blue, purple or green outside; tube 20–57 mm long; lobes 5–15 mm long, acute, glabrous inside. Capsule 1.5–3 mm long and with a 1.5–2 mm long beak. Seeds c. 0.6–0.8 mm long.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2
Altitude range
130–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5371; Thulin & Abdi Dahir 6439; Thulin 10855.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
Notes
Bakeyl yare, burkwa allele, jacjacood (Som.).Bremekamp recognised six species in subgen. Beckia Bremek. in Verh. K. Nederl.Akad. Wet., Afd. Natuurk., ser. 2, 48: 129–134 (1952), but these are here all regarded as forms of a single variable species. Verdcourt in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1976) thought that C. kenyense with pedicellate flowers can be distinguished from C. longitubum with sessile flowers, but the variation is continuous.

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