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Cynanchum gerrardii

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Identification
Cynanchum gerrardii (Harv.) Liede [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ]
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Entry for CYNANCHUM gerrardii (Harvey) Liede [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
CYNANCHUM gerrardii (Harvey) Liede [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1991);
Sarcocyphula gerrardii [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1863). [type as above]
CYNANCHUM sarcostemmatoides K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1895).
Information
Climber, 0.5–3 m high; stems semisucculent, finely striate, obscurely glaucous, glabrescent, basally corky, with thin, yellowish bark. Leaves scale-like, often not exactly opposite, 0.8–1.2 x 0.5–0.8 mm, acute. Inflorescences 4–7-flowered; peduncle 0–2.5 mm long; pedicels 2–4.5 mm long. Flowers sweetly scented; corolla-lobes c. 3 x 1–1.5 mm, deflexed, ovate, acuminate, green to greenish white. Corona white, cup-shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, slightly exceeding the gynostegium, tube more than 3/4 of corona length, staminal parts triangular, apically erect to inflexed, with straight margins, connate to the filament. Gynostegium sessile, 1.5 x 1.2 mm; anther wings 0.4 mm long; connective appendages 0.4 x 0.5 mm, ovate to triangular, narrower than the anthers, strongly inflexed; stigmatic head white, 0.8 x 0.2, flat to depressed-conical. Follicles 1(–2) per flower, 8–12 cm long, with shortly beaked tip. Seeds 5–6 x 2–3 mm, pear-shaped, densely pubescent, not winged, with tuft of c. 2 cm long hairs.
Range
N1, 2 Eritrea, Ethiopia and southwards to South Africa, and Madagascar, the Comores, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Altitude range
1300–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3939; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 9061.
Notes
Debina dir, moroh (Som.).The plant is edible.

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