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Gardenia volkensii

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Identification
Gardenia volkensii K.Schum. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gardenia volkensii

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Entry for GARDENIA volkensii K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
GARDENIA volkensii K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], (1904). Fig. 64.
GARDENIA somalensis Chiov. [family RUBIACEAE], (1916);. types: S3, “Urufle”, Paoli 438 & S1, from “Goriei” to “El Magu”, Paoli 632 (both FT syn.).
GARDENIA somalensis Chiov. var. tubicalyx [family RUBIACEAE], Result. Sci. Miss. Stefanini-Paoli: 93 (1916);. type: S1, ”Hididle”, Paoli 666 (FT holo.).
GARDENIA stupinocarpa Chiov. [family RUBIACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Afmadu”, Guidotti 62 (MOD holo.).
Information
Shrub or tree, up to 4 m or more tall, with pale grey smooth bark; branches greyish white, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, crowded at ends of short shoots; blades obovate, mostly 2–9.5 x 1–5.5 cm, mostly rounded at the apex, glabrous to finely puberulous or slightly scabrid; stipules 2–5 mm long. Flowers solitary, sweet scented, subsessile. Calyx-lobes 7–9, c. 2–15 mm long or limb ± truncate. Corolla white or cream turning yellow or orange, open at night; tube mostly 50–125 mm long; lobes 6–9, 20–50 mm long. Placentas 6–9. Fruit ellipsoid to subglobose, 4–11 x 2.7–10 cm, usually with a thick fibrous or woody wall with prominent wart-like lenticels, unribbed to very markedly coarsely 8–11-ribbed. Seeds flat, 5–10 mm long, finely reticulate.
Range
S1–3
Altitude range
25–270 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 84/6; Beckett & White 1559; Thulin & Warfa 4726.
Distribution (external)
S Ethiopia
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Notes
Gan-boli, kurun-doye (Som.).The Somali material has large fruits with coarse ribs and conspicuous lenticels and belongs to subsp. volkensii var. volkensii .Var. saundersiae (N.E. Br.)Verdc. occurs in southern Africa, whilst subsp. spathulifolia (Stapf & Hutch.) Verdc. is distributed in Angola, Zambia and Botswana. The name G. volkensii var. somalensis (Chiov.) Fiori used in Cuf. Enum.: 1002 (1965) has not been validly published (no reference to basionym).

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