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Heliotropium bacciferum

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Identification
Heliotropium bacciferum Forssk. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Heliotropium sarothroclados Bornm. [family BORAGINACEAE ] Heliotropium lignosum Bornm. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heliotropium bacciferum
  • Heliotropium balansae
  • Heliotropium ramosissimum
  • Bourjotia kralikii
  • Heliotropium persicum
  • Heliophytum kotschyi
  • Heliophytum pterocarpum
  • Lithospermum hispidum
  • Heliotropium affghanum
  • Heliotropium nubicum
  • Heliotropium sarothroclados
  • Heliotropium lignosum
  • Tournefortia mutabilis
  • Heliotropium pterocarpum
  • Heliotropium undulatum

Flora

Entry for HELIOTROPIUM bacciferum Forssk. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin (Argusia, Arnebia, Bourreria, Coldenia, Cynoglossum, Cystostemon, Echiochilon, Ehretia, Heliotropium, Nogalia, Trichodesma, Wellstedia) & A. M. Warfa (Cordia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HELIOTROPIUM bacciferum Forssk. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1885).
HELIOTROPIUM cressoides Franch. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1882);. type: N Somalia, without precise locality, Révoil 80 (P holo.).
Information
Herb or subshrub, prostrate to erect, up to c. 30 cm high, covered by ± appressed tubercle-based hairs. Leaves sessile or almost so; blade linear to lanceolate, 0.5–6 x 0.2–1.6 cm, acute to obtuse at the apex, with crenulate-undulate margins. Flowers sessile in dense simple or branched cymes. Calyx hairy; lobes linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.75–3 mm long. Corolla white or with yellow centre; tube 2.5–4 mm long, hairy outside; lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Style up to 0.7 mm long; stigmatic head conical, c. 1 mm long. Nutlets mostly 4, c. 2 mm long, ± rugose on the back, usually glabrous, sometimes slightly winged at edges.
Range
N1–3 Djibouti, Sudan, North and West Africa, Arabian Peninsula and eastwards to Pakistan.
Altitude range
0–100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 7238; Gillett 4740; Thulin & Warfa 5588.
Notes
Gahot (Som.). H. bacciferum and H. pterocarpum are part of a widespread complex in need of further study and the taxonomy used here is preliminary.

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