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Flueggea virosa

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Identification
Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.)Voigt [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
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Entry for FLUEGGEA virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Voigt [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
FLUEGGEA virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Voigt [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1845);
Phyllanthus virosus Roxb. ex Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1805); [type as above]
Securinega virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1866). Fig. 155. [type as above]
Flueggea microcarpa Bl. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1825).
Securinega abyssinica A. Rich. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1851).
Information
Deciduous shrub or small tree, 1–4.5(–6) m high; trunk grey-brown, smooth, rough or fissured. Twigs virgate, slender. Leaf-blades (in Somalia) elliptic to obovate or suborbicular, (1–)2–4(–6) x (0.5–)1–2(–3) cm, base rounded to cuneate, tip rounded to shortly acuminate, rarely occasionally emarginate, not bullate, veins relatively fine. Petioles narrowly winged, 3–6 mm long; venation distinctly reticulate; stipules 1.5–2 mm long, fimbriate, soon falling. Male flowers in dense clusters; pedicels to 9 mm long; outer sepals 1.5 mm long, acute, entire, inner sepals 2 mm long, obtuse, fimbriate towards tip; disc glands subtuberculate; stamens longer than sepals; pistillode with styles/appendages as long as sepals. Female flowers (1–)few together; pedicels up to 6 mm; sepals as in male but smaller; disc shallowly 5-lobed; styles as long as ovary, recurved. Fruit 2–3 x 4–5 mm, white, rather fleshy when ripe. Seeds 2 mm long, shining yellowish-brown.
Range
C2; S1–3 throughout tropical Africa, Madagascar, Arabia and from India east to Japan and Indonesia; subsp. melanthesioides (F. Muell.) Webster in Australia and New Guinea.
Altitude range
3–250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Deshmukh JESS 228; Friis & al. 4556; Hemming & Deshmukh 86/39.
Notes
Casuuro, gamoor-cade, lafaay, majabe, qajajaale, xararaay (Som.).

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