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Eriostylos stefaninii

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Identification
Eriostylos stefaninii (Chiov.) C.C.Towns. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Centema stefaninii Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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  • Centema stefaninii
  • Eriostylos stefaninii

Flora

Entry for ERIOSTYLOS stefaninii (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
ERIOSTYLOS stefaninii (Chiov.) C.C. Townsend [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1979);. type: S2, “Vadda”, Paoli 357 (FT holo.). Fig. 80.
Centema stefaninii Chiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1916);. type: S2, “Vadda”, Paoli 357 (FT holo.). Fig. 80.
Information
Plant erect, 15–35 cm, stems simple or branched from the base upwards, somewhat succulent, subglabrous to moderately furnished with multicellular hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, on the main stem 4–9 x 0.8–1.6 cm, acuminate, sessile with rounded auricles at the base, indumentum as for the stem. Inflorescence bright carmine-red, in flower c. 3–5 x 1–1.5 cm, elongating to c. 18 cm in fruit, axis white-floccose. Tepals of fertile flowers diverse in form: outer 2 firm, oblong-ovate c. 1 mm, rapidly narrowed to a short mucro, with fine midrib and usually 2 pairs of lateral nerves; inner 2 blunt, somewhat shorter, broadly hyaline-margined with a narrow 3-nerved central vitta; central tepal intermediate. Fruiting burr c. 12 mm in diam. including the rigid, stramineous spines, lanate within. Pseudostaminodes c. 1.5–2 mm, strongly dentate-fimbriate all round. Style slender, c. 4–5 mm.
Range
C1; S2, 3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
0–215 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 335; Friis, Vollesen & Hassan 5063; Thulin 6381.
Notes
Ganir, sinei-malovei (Som.).

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