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Kelleronia splendens

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Name

Identification
Kelleronia splendens Schinz [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Kelleronia eriostemon Chiov. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Kelleronia quadricornuta
  • Kelleronia splendens
  • Kelleronia eriostemon

Flora

Entry for KELLERONIA splendens Schinz [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
KELLERONIA splendens Schinz [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1895);
Tribulus splendens (Schinz) Chiov. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1929). Fig. 96 B. [type as above]
KELLERONIA quadricornuta Chiov. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1929);. types: NE Somalia, Puccioni & Stefanini 914, 933 & 1000 (FT syn.).
KELLERONIA eriostemon Chiov. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1929);. type: S1, near Luuq, Puccioni & Stefanini 308 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub or shrublet 0.4–2.5 m tall, densely pubescent with short appressed hairs, sometimes also with longer spreading bristle-like hairs on pedicels and calyces. Leaves alternate, 2–10 cm long; leaflets 2–4 pairs, oblong to obliquely ovate or elliptic, 7–35 x 3–20 mm; stipules linear, 3–8 mm long. Pedicel 5–25 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 12–15 mm long. Petals yellow, 10–25 mm long. Stamens with filaments 8–13 mm long. Ovary densely setose-pilose with hairs 6–9 mm long; style 10–18 mm long; stigma capitate. Fruit densely setose-pilose with long hairs; mericarps c. 5–5.5 mm long, with a pair of short horns on the back.
Range
N1–3; S1
Altitude range
60–1350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6946; Thulin & Warfa 5421; Gillett & Watson 23779.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
?S Arabia
Notes
Il cas (Som.). Small-flowered forms with horns on the mericarps have been called K. quadricornuta, but the variation in flower-size seems to be continuous, and also the large-flowered forms have horned mericarps. K. eriostemon was described as a tree with pale yellow, 12 mm long petals and hairy filaments. However, the filaments of the type are glabrous and the specimen is a fairly normal K. splendens.

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