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Fagonia lahovarii

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Identification
Fagonia cretica L. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] Fagonia harerensis Hadidi [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by Hadidi, M.N. El, Fagonia lahovarii Volkens & Schweinf. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Beier, B.-A.,
Related name
  • Fagonia lahovarii
  • Fagonia harerensis
  • Fagonia cretica

Flora

Entry for FAGONIA lahovarii Volkens & Schweinf. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
FAGONIA lahovarii Volkens & Schweinf. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1897). Fig. 96 D.
FAGONIA lahovarii Schwartz var. spinescens [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], in Mitt. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10: 121 (1939);
FAGONIA isotricha (Schwartz) Hadidi var. spinescens [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1974). [type as above]
FAGONIA harerensis Hadidi [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1978).
Information
Woody-based perennial or shrublet to 40 cm tall, erect or ascending, glandular pubescent; stem striate. Leaves 3-foliolate, the uppermost sometimes 1-foliolate; blade lanceolate to elliptic or narrowly ovate, up to 20 x 7(–10) mm, ± apiculate, glandular pubescent; petiole 4–15(–35) mm long; stipules spinescent, often recurved, 2.5–6(–16) mm long. Pedicel 2.5–10 mm long. Sepals narrowly ovate, 2.8–4 mm long, glandular, apiculate, soon falling. Petals pink, 6–8 mm long, obtuse. Style 2.5–4 mm long. Fruit c. 5 mm long. Seeds c. 3 mm long.
Range
N1–3; S1
Altitude range
150–900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6939; Thulin 4289; Gillett 4793.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
NE Kenya
S Arabia
Notes
This has been treated as F. isotricha Murb. by Hadidi in, e.g., Adumbr. 30: 98 (1978) and Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1985). However, F. isotricha was treated as a synonym of F. latifolia, a North African species, by Beier (2005). The type of F. lahovarii was said to be from S Yemen in Adumbr. (1978) and Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1985). However, the type locality is in E Ethiopia, very close to the type locality of F. harerensis. The records of F. sinaica Boiss. and F. subinermis Boiss. in Cuf. Enum.: 358 (1956) are both based on material of F. lahovarii.

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