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Cordia subcordata

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Identification
Cordia subcordata
Related name
  • Cordia subcordata

Flora

Entry for CORDIA subcordata Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin (Argusia, Arnebia, Bourreria, Coldenia, Cynoglossum, Cystostemon, Echiochilon, Ehretia, Heliotropium, Nogalia, Trichodesma, Wellstedia) & A. M. Warfa (Cordia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CORDIA subcordata Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1792).
Information
Shrub or tree up to 15 m tall; young branchlets glabrous or almost so. Leaves alternate; blade broadly ovate to elliptic or suborbicular, 8–20 x 5–15 cm, cuneate to rounded or rarely subcordate at the base, obtuse to rounded or rarely acute at the apex, entire or rarely toothed, with minute scattered hairs above, pubescent to tomentose along midrib and principal veins beneath; petiole 15–80 mm long. Flowers bisexual, heterostylous, in lax few- to 20-flowered pubescent inflorescences. Calyx tubular to funnel-shaped, 10–20 mm long, glabrous or sparsely strigose outside, (2–)3–5-lobed. Corolla white, orange or red; tube 20–30 mm long; lobes 5–7. Stamens 5–7. Style with united part 19–33 mm long, with flattened stigmatic lobes less than 1 mm long. Fruit a nut, c. 20–30 x 15–25 mm, ovoid, obovoid or subglobose, completely enclosed by the leathery to finally somewhat woody calyx; mesocarp corky; endocarp very hard.
Range
S3 widespread along the coasts of tropical Asia as well as on the islands of the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific.
Altitude range
sea shores above the high tide mark
Distribution
SOMALIA Senni 143.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Notes
Mareer (Som.).The nuts of C. subcordata float by means of the corky mesocarp.

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