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Heliotropium lignosum

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Name

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 sarothroclados
  • Heliotropium lignosum
  • Heliotropium undulatum
  • Lithospermum lignosum
  • Heliotropium unrecorded

Flora

Entry for HELIOTROPIUM lignosum Vatke [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 lignosum Vatke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Oest. Bot. Zeitsch. 1875, 167.
Lithospermum lignosum Schweinf. ex Vatke [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
Information
Fruticose. Stems short, woody, ascending, densely clothed with short adpressed whitish bristly hairs. Leaves small, sessile, lanceolate, with revolute crisped edges, densely and shortly bristly on both sides. Spikes short, dense, 3–6-flowered. Calyx 1 1/2 in. long, very hispid; tube short; segments oblong. Corolla-tube slightly longer than the calyx, subcylindric; segments small, obtuse. Stamens inserted just below the middle of the corolla-tube. Style short; stigma conical; apex bilobed. Nuts 4, hispid.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land coast north of Ras Ranar, Schweinfurth, 2111!
Distribution (external)
Arabia

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