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Dorstenia palmata

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Kosaria palmata Schweinf. [family MORACEAE ] Dorstenia palmata Engl. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Kosaria palmata
  • Dorstenia palmata
  • Dorstenia barnimiana

Flora

Entry for DORSTENIA barnimiana Schweinf. [family MORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DORSTENIA barnimiana Schweinf. [family MORACEAE], (1862);
Kosaria barnimiana (Schweinf.) Schweinf. [family MORACEAE], (1863). Fig. 57. [type as above]
Dorstenia ophioglossioides Bureau [family MORACEAE], (1873);
Dorstenia barnimiana (Bureau) Engl. var. ophioglossioides [family MORACEAE], Monogr. Afr. Pflan­zenfam. 1: 25 (1898). [type as above]
Dorstenia telekii Schweinf. [family MORACEAE], (1892);
Dorstenia barnimiana (Schweinf.) Engl. var. telekii [family MORACEAE], Monogr. Afr. Pflanzen­fam. 1: 25 (1898). [type as above]
Dorstenia palmata Engl. [family MORACEAE], (1894).
Dorstenia palmata Chiov. var. integrifolia [family MORACEAE], in Miss. Biol. Paese dei Borana, 4, Bot.: 36 (1939).
Dorstenia triternata Chiov. [family MORACEAE], (1940).
Information
Perennial monoecious herb with slightly depressed or subglobose tuber, 2–5 cm in diam., sometimes with small swelling above but aerial stems absent; leaves and receptacles from the tuber. Leaves: stipules not observed; petiole 4–15 cm long, glabrescent; blade reniform, cordate or palmate, often varying in shape during the season, 2–10 x 3.5–11 cm, cordate or rounded at the base, bluntly acute to rounded at the apex, with entire or irregular denticulate margins, puberulous to glabrescent on both sides, veins pedately branched. Inflorescences 1–2 together on 4–12 cm long peduncles; receptacles narrowly oblong, 1–3 x 0.3–0.8 cm (excl. appendages), attached to the peduncle near the base; appendages 2 (basal and apical), a few (one apical and 3–7 basal ones) or many (evenly distributed along the margin or usually with longer apical and basal ones), 4–40 x 0.5–1 mm, often purplish brown, rarely greenish. Male flowers numerous, tepals 2, stamens 2, rudimentary ovary not observed. Female flowers fewer, scattered, stigma unbranched. Endocarp ovoid, whitish, verrucose, c. 1 mm long.
Range
N2; C2; S1
Altitude range
250–1450 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Collenette 309; Kuchar 17092; Tardelli 206.
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Ethiopia
NE Zaire
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania

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