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Dalechampia cordofana

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Name

Identification
Dalechampia cordofana Hochst. ex Webb [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Dalechampia scandens (Hochst. ex Webb) Müll.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Dalechampia tripartita
  • Dalechampia parvifolia
  • Dalechampia cordofana
  • Dalechampia scandens

Flora

Entry for DALECHAMPIA parvifolia Lam. [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
DALECHAMPIA parvifolia Lam. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1786). Fig. 167.
DALECHAMPIA cordofana Webb [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (“cordafana”) (1849);
DALECHAMPIA scandens (Webb) Muell. Arg. var. cordofana [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 1245 (1866). [type as above]
DALECHAMPIA scandens [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in the sense of African authors, not L.
DALECHAMPIA ipomoeifolia [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in the sense of Agnew (1974), not Benth.
Information
Woody based twiner to 3 m, glabrous or pubescent throughout. Petiole 2.5–9 cm long; leaf-blade palmately 3–5-lobed or -foliolate, up to 14 x 14 cm, usually less, base cordate, middle lobe ± lanceolate, 3–7.5 x 0.6–2.2 cm, tip acute to rounded, serrate, lateral lobes smaller. Peduncles up to 17 cm long; bracts ovate, up to 3(–5) x 2.5(–5) cm, base rounded or shallowly cordate, tip often 3-toothed, whitish or yellowish, green in fruit; male peduncle 3–5 mm long, involucre 5–8 mm across, ± glabrous, 13-flowered, sterile mass adaxial, flattened. Female flowers 3, bracts to 3 mm, ciliate, margins glandular; pedicels up to 1.5 cm long; sepals 6, accrescent to 1 cm, each side with 6 thread-like, gland-tipped lobes, margins with stinging hairs; style to 1 cm long. Fruit 5 x 8 mm, hairy. Seeds 3 mm diam., grey with brown marks.
Range
N1; C2; S1–3 Cape Verde Is. east to tropical Arabia, south to Mozambique and Namibia
Altitude range
50–1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & Hemming 24164; Gillett & al. 24928; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7144, 7539.
Distribution (external)
Pakistan
India (Gujerat)
Notes
The leaves vary dramatically in form between those with narrow, acuminate lobes and those with broad, rounded lobes but the forms overlap extensively in distribution and it does not seem practicable to separate them. This species has usually been included within D. scandens, but Webster & Armbruster in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 105: 160–162 (1991) treat D. scandens as a species restricted to the New World. Apart from var. cordofana, Pax recognised amongst the “Old World D. scandens ” one variety from Madagascar, one from India, one from South Africa and var. hildebrandtii (Pax) Pax from coastal East Africa. The latter differs from D. parvifolia by the entire leaf-lobes and may be a distinct species, although collections such as Thulin & al. 7539 could almost be regarded as intermediate.

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