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Dasysphaera hyposericea

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Identification
Dasysphaera hyposericea (Chiov.) C.C.Towns. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Chionothrix hyposericea Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Dasysphaera robecchii
  • Chionothrix hyposericea
  • Dasysphaera breviflora
  • Unrecorded unrecorded
  • Dasysphaera hyposericea
  • Chionothrix hyposericeae

Flora

Entry for DASYSPHAERA hyposericea (Chiov.) C.C. Townsend [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 hyposericea (Chiov.) C.C. Townsend [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1983);. type: S2, near Mogadishu, Paoli 114 (FT holo.). Plate 2 E.
Chionothrix hyposericea Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1916);. type: S2, near Mogadishu, Paoli 114 (FT holo.). Plate 2 E.
Dasysphaera breviflora C.C. Townsend [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1979);. type: S2, 8 km N of Mogadishu, Bally 9535 (K holo.).
Information
Scandent or straggling perennial, woody below, 0.4–3 m, much-branched with opposite leaves and branches, young branches ± densely greyish-canescent, older branches becoming thinly so, terete and striate. Leaves roundish-ovate, 0.4–2 cm long and broad, moderately furnished with whitish or greyish ± appressed hairs on the upper surface, densely so beneath, obtuse to retuse at the apex, shortly cuneate to subcordate at the base, distinctly petiolate. Inflorescences to c. 12 cm long, axis densely greyish-canescent. Partial inflorescences mostly of 3 fertile flowers. Tepals oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 3–4 mm, densely furnished with lanuginose greyish-white hairs, 3-nerved, the inner slightly shorter. Filaments distinctly expanding towards the base. Style 1–1.5 mm. Mature capsule not seen. Sterile flowers with glabrous, stramineous to brownish bristles 10–16 mm long.
Range
C1, 2; S2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
100–350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett, Hemming & Watson 22543; Thulin & Warfa 4547; Lavranos & Carter 23260.

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