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Cynoglossum alpinum

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Identification
Cynoglossum alpinum (Brand) B.L.Burtt [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cynoglossum alpina
  • Cynoglossum montanum
  • Cynoglossum alpinum
  • Cynoglossum unrecorded
  • Cynoglossum coeruleum
  • Cynoglossum abyssinicum

Flora

Entry for CYNOGLOSSUM alpinum (Brand) H. Riedl [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
CYNOGLOSSUM alpinum (Brand) H. Riedl [family BORAGINACEAE], (1985);
CYNOGLOSSUM montanum Brand var. alpinum [family BORAGINACEAE], in Pflanzenr. IV.252(78): 127 (1921). [type as above]
Information
Herb, 0.2–0.5 m tall, from a taproot; stems and leaves ± softly pilose with spreading to ± appressed hairs. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2–18 x 0.5–2.5 cm, attenuate at the base, acute at the apex, the upper ones with clasping bases, the lower ones petiolate. Inflorescences usually with paired branches, quickly elongating and becoming lax, up to c. 25 cm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long, elongating to 5–18 mm and recurved in fruit. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–4(–6) mm long, hairy outside. Corolla blue; tube c. 2.5 mm long; lobes c. 4–5 mm long. Style c. 1 mm long, elongating in fruit. Nutlets compressed obovoid to subglobose, 4–5 mm in diam., covered ± all over with c. 0.5 mm long glochidiate spines; fruiting style up to 3 mm long, angular.
Range
N2
Altitude range
1400–2200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 15591; Collenette 374; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 9138.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia

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