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Jatropha rivae

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Name

Identification
Jatropha rivae Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Jatropha rivae [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Jatropha arguta
  • Jatropha parvifolia
  • Jatropha rivae

Flora

Entry for JATROPHA rivae Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
JATROPHA rivae Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1897).
Information
Shrub to 2.5 m tall, with usually ± purplish-brown, pubescent twigs. Leaves mostly clustered on short-shoots; blade oblanceolate to obovate, 5–35 x 5–15 mm, cuneate at the base, rounded to emarginate at the apex, entire to dentate or sinuately lobed; petiole 0–2 mm long. Stipules up to 7 mm long, spinescent, straight or recurved, with a thickened base enclosing the leaf-scar. Inflorescences up to 7 cm long, pubescent. Male flowers: calyx c. 2–2.5 mm long, with obtuse ciliate lobes; petals c. 3–3.5 mm long. Female flowers: sepals accrescent to at least 3.5 mm in fruit, often glandular-denticulate; ovary glabrous; styles united at base with bifid thickened stigmas. Fruit 8–10 x 8 mm, glabrous. Seeds c. 6 x 3.5 mm, with a fimbriate caruncle c. 3 mm wide.

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