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Heliotropium ramosissimum

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Identification
Heliotropium ramosissimum (Lehm.) DC. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Heliotropium undulatum Boiss. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heliotropium eriocarpum
  • Heliotropium linearum
  • Heliotropium nubicum
  • Heliotropium bacciferum
  • Heliotropium sarothroclados
  • Lithospermum unrecorded
  • Heliotropium ramosissimum
  • Heliotropium persicum
  • Heliotropium undulatum
  • Heliotropium ramossimum

Flora

Entry for HELIOTROPIUM undulatum Vahl. [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 undulatum Vahl. [family BORAGINACEAE], Symb. i. 13. —DC. Prodr. ix. 536; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 150; Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. 225; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 718.
HELIOTROPIUM crispum Desf. [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Atlant. i. 151, t. 41.
HELIOTROPIUM persicum Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE], Encycl. iii. 94; DC. l.c. 537; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 147.
HELIOTROPIUM ramosissimum Sieber ex DC. [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
HELIOTROPIUM eriocarpum Delile ex Lehm. [family BORAGINACEAE], Asper. 55.
HELIOTROPIUM paradoxum Vatke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 167.
HELIOTROPIUM nubicum Bunge [family BORAGINACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xlii. i. 330 (1869).
HELIOTROPIUM cressoides Franch. [family BORAGINACEAE], Sert. Somal. 46.
Lithospermum hispidum Forsk. [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 38.
Information
Perennial, much-branched. Stem slender, suberect, densely clothed with white bulbous-based bristles. Leaves scabrid on both surfaces, undulate, the upper lanceolate, sessile, the lower oblong, tapering into a short petiole, up to 2 1/2 in. long and 7 lin. broad. Spikes many, short, dense, ebracteate. Calyx 1 lin. long, hairy outside; lobes 5, oblong, truncate, as long as the tube. Corolla 1 3/4 lin. long; tube slightly inflated near the middle; lobes short, rounded, much undulated. Stamens inserted about half-way up the corolla-tube; anthers lanceolate, acute. Style short, thick, glabrous; stigma conical. Fruit globose, almost 2-winged, pilose at first, finally glabrous; nutlets 4, rugose.
Range
Extends from the Cape Verde Isles through North Africa, Arabia, Socotra and Tropical Asia.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Mbidjem, Thierry, 51! Sor Island, Brunner, 27!Nubia Nile Land coast region, Bent! between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, 280!Senegal Upper Guinea Dollinger, 1! Roger, 40! Sieber, 11!Nigeria Upper Guinea Bornu: Kuka, on Lake Chad, Vogel, 12! and without precise locality, Elliot, 122!Soudan Nile Land near Khartoum, Petherick! Sennar, Kotschy, 279! 476! Kordofan, Kotschy, 11! 255! Pfund, 68! 105! 448! White Nile, Schweinfurth, 907.

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