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Heliotropium arbainense

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Identification
Heliotropium arbainense Fresen. 1834 [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Heliotropium arbainense
  • Heliotropium europaeum

Flora

Entry for HELIOTROPIUM arbainense Fresen. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
HELIOTROPIUM arbainense Fresen. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Mus. Senckenb. i. (1834) 168. —DC. Prodr. ix. 537; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 146.
Information
Perennial. Stems short, ascending, much-branched, densely clothed with short soft whitish hairs. Leaves petioled, ovate or oblong, small, densely hairy on both sides, rounded or narrowed to the base. Spikes dense, ebracteate, finally 2–3 in. long. Calyx very glandular, hairy, 2 lin. long; tube short; lobes ovate. Corolla-tube hairy, twice as long as the calyx; lobes small, ovate. Stamens inserted just below the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers lanceolate, acute. Stigma mushroom-shaped, glabrous, nearly sessile. Nuts 4, shorter than the calyx, rugose, glabrous.
Distribution
Nile Land Coast of Nubia, ex Boissier.
Distribution (external)
Egypt
Arabia
Afghanistan

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