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Kickxia somalensis

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Kickxia somalensis (Vatke) Cufod. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Linaria ramosissima Wall. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Type of Linaria somalensis Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Isotype of Linaria somalensis Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Type of Linaria somalensis Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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Identification
Linaria somalensis Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Kickxia somalensis (Vatke) Cufod. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Kickxia somalensis
  • Linaria brunneri
  • Nanorrhinum ramosissimum
  • Linaria somalensis

Flora

Entry for NANORRHINUM ramosissimum (Wall.) Betsche [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
NANORRHINUM ramosissimum (Wall.) Betsche [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1984);
Linaria ramosissima Wall. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1831);. [type as above]
Kickxia ramosissima (Wall.) Janchen [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1933). [type as above]
Linaria somalensis Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1882);. type: N2, near “Meid” in the “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 1409 (BM K iso.).
Kickxia somalensis (Vatke) Cuf. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1963);. type: N2, near “Meid” in the “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 1409 (BM K iso.).
Pogonorrhinum somalense (Vatke) Betsche [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1984);. type: N2, near “Meid” in the “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 1409 (BM K iso.).
Information
Perennial herb or subshrub, glabrous, sparsely pubescent or tomentose all over with glandular or eglandular hairs up to 1.5 mm long; stems up to 60(–90) cm long, prostrate, scandent or ascending to erect. Basal leaves ovate to elliptic, (3–)6–20(–25) x 4–12(–25) mm, obtuse or truncate at the apex, coarsely serrate or entire, rounded at the base, petiole 4–12 mm long, not twining; upper leaves ovate, deltate or lanceolate, (3–)7–25 x (1.5–)3–15 mm, acute or subacute at the apex, entire, lobed, or rarely with few teeth near the base, hastate, sagittate or rounded to cordate at the base, petiole (2–)4–14 mm long, not or slightly twining. Pedicels 7–21(–26) mm long, straight, except for curved tip. Calyx-lobes 3–5 x 0.4–1.4 mm, linear-subulate to lanceolate, acuminate, with margins narrowly to somewhat broadly scarious below, glabrous, glandular- or eglandular-pubescent or villous. Corolla 3.5–11 mm long, yellow, glandular- or eglandular-pubescent outside; tube 1.5–3 mm broad at the mouth; palate glabrous or sparsely pubescent; spur 1.2–6.5 mm long, straight, patent or forming obtuse angle with tube, shorter than or almost as long as rest of corolla. Abaxial filaments pubescent. Capsule 2.5–5 mm long, oblong-ovoid to subglobose, glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent at the tip; cells equal, many-seeded, dehiscent. Seeds 0.3–0.6 mm long, oblong-ovoid to oblong-ellipsoid, practically always tuberculate, blackish- to reddish-brown; tubercles columnar, subacute or obtuse and papillate, or shortly acute and entire; papillae mostly confined to tubercle-tips, patent, slender, straight or recurved.
Range
N2, 3 South-Central Asia.
Altitude range
1200–1900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Dahir & Hassan 9127, 9149; Lavranos & Carter 24825.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
north-eastern Kenya
Sudan
Arabian peninsula
Notes
Plants from Somalia with small, entire leaves, glabrous palate, and seeds with short papillate tubercles have been described as Kickxia somalensis. Further collections from the type locality displayed a wide variation in indumentum, leaf shape and seed ornamentation. The leaf shape of the species is highly variable and to a large extent environmentally conditioned.

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