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Graderia speciosa

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Name

Identification
Graderia speciosa Rendle [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Ghikaea spectabilis Volkens&Schweinf. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Graderia speciosa
  • Ghikaea spectabilis

Flora

Entry for GHIKAEA speciosa (Rendle) Diels [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
GHIKAEA speciosa (Rendle) Diels [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1908);
Graderia speciosa Rendle [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1896). Fig. 195. [type as above]
Ghikaea spectabilis Schweinf. & Volkens [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1897).
Information
Plant 1–3 m tall, scabrid. Leaf-blades ovate, up to 40 x 16 mm, obtuse to acuminate, with entire margin. Flowers on pedicels up to 8 mm long. Calyx 11–13 mm long, divided about halfway into triangular lobes with revolute margins. Corolla rose to pink or purple, 25–40 mm long; tube 15–20 mm long, much widened towards the mouth. Capsule 8–10 x 7–8 mm, emarginate.
Range
N1; C1, 2; S1
Altitude range
150–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 9964; Gillett & Hemming 24244; Thulin & Abdi Dahir 6623.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
N Kenya

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