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Dyschoriste somalensis

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Name

Identification
Dyschoriste somalensis Rendle [family ACANTHACEAE ] Dyschoriste hildebrandtii (S.Moore) S.Moore [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Dyschoriste somalensis
  • Phillipsia fruticulosa
  • Dyschoriste hildebrandtii
  • Satanocrater unrecorded
  • Dyschoriste fruticulosa

Flora

Entry for DYSCHORISTE hildebrandtii (S. Moore) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DYSCHORISTE hildebrandtii (S. Moore) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], (1895);
Calophanes hildebrandtii S. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE], (1880). [type as above]
Phillipsia fruticulosa Rolfe [family ACANTHACEAE], (1895);. type: N1, “Golis” Range, Lort Phillips s.n. (K holo.).
Satanocrater fruticulosus (Rolfe) Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], (1897);. type: N1, “Golis” Range, Lort Phillips s.n. (K holo.).
DYSCHORISTE fruticulosa (Rolfe) Chiov. [family ACANTHACEAE], (1929);. type: N1, “Golis” Range, Lort Phillips s.n. (K holo.).
DYSCHORISTE somalensis Rendle [family ACANTHACEAE], (1896).
Information
Woody-based perennial herb or shrublet, up to c. 0.6 m tall; young stems pubescent with ± spreading to appressed hairs. Leaves narrowly elliptic to ovate, 10–40 x 5–30 mm, subacute to rounded or truncate and often with a small tip at the apex, attenuate into a petiole at the base, with subentire to shallowly crenate margins, shortly pubescent on both surfaces; petiole articulated near the base. Flowers in few- to several-flowered axillary cymes; bracts linear to oblanceolate, up to c. 7 mm long. Calyx 12–17 mm long, pubescent, sometimes also glandular; lobes 3.5–7 mm long. Corolla yellowish, white, blue or violet, 16–35 mm long, pubescent outside; tube 12–28 mm long, cylindrical for most of its length and widened near throat only; lobes subequal. Capsule 11–14 mm long, shorter than calyx.
Range
N1 southern tropical Africa.
Altitude range
50–1450 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4017; Bally 9935; Thulin 11054.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Notes
Gagaleh (Som.). The flowers always seem to be yellowish or white in Somali material, and the indumentum consists of eglandular hairs only.

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