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Dasysphaera alternifolia

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Identification
Dasysphaera alternifolia Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Dasysphaera alternifolia Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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Entry for DASYSPHAERA alternifolia Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DASYSPHAERA alternifolia Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1929);. type: N3, Hafun, Puccioni & Stefanini 18 (FT holo.).
Information
Low shrub 0.25–2 m tall, much-branched with alternate leaves and branches, young branches densely white-tomentose, older branches becoming thinly so, terete and striate. Leaves rather small, obovate to spathulate, 3–12 x 3–7 mm, ± densely white-tomentose on both surfaces or more thinly so above, when larger distinctly petiolate, apex acute to obtuse or weakly retuse, base cuneate. Inflorescences to c. 7 cm long, axis densely white-tomentose. Partial inflorescences small, mostly of 3 fertile flowers. Tepals narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 5–7 mm, densely furnished with long, ± appressed hairs, 3-nerved, inner slightly shorter. Filaments expanded towards the base. Style c. 2–2.5 mm. Capsule ovoid, c. 2.5 mm. Sterile flowers with the bristles long-pilose at the base or to above halfway, 6–8 mm, brownish to purplish-brown.
Range
N3; C1 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
180–550 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 1695; Bally & Melville 15638; Thulin & Warfa 4691.

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