Compilation
Edithcolea sordida
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Name
Identification
Edithcolea sordida N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Verified by Brown, N.E., Edithcolea grandis N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
- Edithcolea grandis
- Edithcolea sordida
Flora
Entry for EDITHCOLEA grandis N.E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
EDITHCOLEA grandis N.E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1895);. type: N1, “Henweina” valley, Cole s.n. & Lort Phillips s.n. (K syn.). Fig. 129.
EDITHCOLEA sordida N.E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1903).
Information
Stems 10–15 mm thick. Pedicels 14–18 mm long, c. 2 mm thick; corolla (30–)60–120 mm wide, with a short tube, c. 6 mm wide, a broad, flat limb and broadly triangular, reflexed lobes; limb and lower part of lobes basically yellowish with an intricate pattern of more or less concentrically arranged dark purple dots, which are usually dense but sometimes almost absent and become larger and more widely spaced in an arc in the middle of each lobe; margin of corolla and the apical portion of the lobes usually uniformly purple or greenish-brown, with a fringe of long club-shaped purple hairs that also border them on the inner side and extend in five radial lines from the sinuses between the lobes to the outer rim of the tube. Outer corona-lobes acutely bifid and hairy on the inner side; inner lobes strap-shaped in their middle portion, joined above the staminal column, minutely tuberculate.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
200–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lavranos 7314; Lavranos, Carter & al. 23398, 24844.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Yemen
Socotra
Notes
Plants from north of Muqdisho, with exceptionally small flowers (Lavranos, Carter & al. 24541) need to be further investigated and may represent a distinct taxon.