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Heliotropium curassavicum

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Identification
Heliotropium curassavicum L. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heliotropium curassavicum

Flora

Entry for HELIOTROPIUM zeylanicum (Burm. f.) Lam. [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 zeylanicum (Burm. f.) Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1789);
HELIOTROPIUM curassavicum Burm. f. var. zeylanicum [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Indica: 41 (1768). Fig. 27E–H. [type as above]
Tournefortia subulata A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1845);
HELIOTROPIUM subulatum (A.DC.) Vatke [family BORAGINACEAE], (1882);. [type as above]
HELIOTROPIUM zeylanicum (A.DC.) Chiov. var. subulatum [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Somala 3: 140 (1936). [type as above]
HELIOTROPIUM subulatum Vatke var. arenarium [family BORAGINACEAE], in Linnaea 43: 316 (1882);. type: S2, ”Baraua”, Hildebrandt 1315 (B holo., destr.).
HELIOTROPIUM zeylanicum (Vatke) Chiov. var. arenarium [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Somala 3: 141 (1936);. [type as above]
Information
Herb or subshrub up to 1 m tall, sparsely to densely pubescent or hispid with tubercle-based hairs, sometimes also with glandular hairs. Leaf-blades linear to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 0.8–9(–12) x 0.2–1.2(–2.4) cm, attenuate at the base, acute at the apex; petiole obsolete or very short. Flowers sessile in simple or paired up to 30 cm long cymes; bracts absent. Calyx pubescent to subglabrous; lobes narrowly elliptic to ovate, 1–2.2(–3) x 0.4–1.2 mm. Corolla yellowish or greenish; tube 2.5–4.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent or with lines of hairs outside; lobes triangular at base and with subulate tips, 1.5–4 mm long, pubescent outside. Anthers 2-fid at the tip. Style 0.7–1.5 mm long; stigmatic head conical-oblong, 0.8–1.7 mm long with a tuft of hairs at the apex. Nutlets 4, c.1.5–1.8 mm long, rugose.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 widespread in tropical and southern Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, India.
Altitude range
0–1410 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3960; Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 288; Thulin & Warfa 5990.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Socotra
East Africa
Notes
Cariig, difanud, gahoub (Som.).

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