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Heliotropium ophioglossum

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Identification
Heliotropium ophioglossum Stocks ex Boiss. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Heliotropium stylosum Franch. [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Heliotropium ophioglossum
  • Heliotropium stylosum

Flora

Entry for HELIOTROPIUM ophioglossum Stocks ex Boiss. [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 ophioglossum Stocks ex Boiss. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1879).
HELIOTROPIUM stylosum Franch. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1882), nom. illeg.;. type: N3, “Meraya”, Révoil 79 (P lecto.).
HELIOTROPIUM vierhapperi O. Schwartz [family BORAGINACEAE], (1939).
Information
Herb or subshrub up to c. 0.5 m tall, densely pubescent with short hairs and also with long bristly hairs. Leaf-blades lanceolate to elliptic or narrowly ovate, 0.7–5 x 0.2–1.8 cm, attenuate at the base, ± acute at the apex; petiole 0–1 cm long. Flowers sessile in simple or paired up to 15 cm long cymes; bracts absent. Calyx hispid; lobes linear to lanceolate, 3–4.5 mm long. Corolla white or cream; tube 3–5 mm long, pubescent outside mainly along veins; lobes ± unequal, 1–2 mm long, obtuse to subacute, glabrous or pubescent along midvein outside. Style 0.1–0.5 mm long; stigmatic head narrowly conical, c. 3–5 mm long, glabrous, distinctly 2-fid, mostly exserted. Nutlets 4, 1.5–2 mm long, finely rugose.
Range
N1–3; C1
Altitude range
250–1100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5626, 5992, 6209.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Socotra
Yemen
Oman
Pakistan
Notes
Food cade (Som.).

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