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Kissenia arabica

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Name

Identification
Kissenia arabica R.Br. ex Chiov. [family LOASACEAE ] (stored under name); Kissenia spathulata R.Br. [family LOASACEAE ]
Related name
  • Kissenia arabica
  • Kissenia spathulata

Flora

Entry for KISSENIA arabica R. Br. ex Chiov. [family LOASACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
KISSENIA arabica R. Br. ex Chiov. [family LOASACEAE], (1929);. types from Yemen and Somalia: N2, “vallée du Gueldora”, Révoil s.n. (P syn.). Fig. 20.
KISSENIA capensis Endl. [family LOASACEAE], (1842) pro parte, non sensu str.;
KISSENIA spathulata T. Anders. [family LOASACEAE], (1860), nom. illeg. superfl. [type as above]
Information
Spreading shrubby herb to 1 m high; stems and leaves rough, like sand-paper, tending to stick by the barbed hairs; stems whitish. Petioles 2–6.5 cm long; leaf-blade ovate, up to 4–10 x 3–10 cm, base cordate, tip rounded, obscurely pinnately lobed, coarsely dentate. Cymes up to 15 cm long; bracts lanceolate, up to c. 1.5 cm long; pedicels 3–4 mm long. Calyx-tube/ovary c. 5 mm long, very densely pilose, lobes oblanceolate, c. 15–17 x 4–5 mm at anthesis, tip rounded. Petals elliptic, 7–9 x c. 4 mm, white. Stamens exserted by c. 4 mm; petaloid scales with narrowly oblong 3-lobed/partite tip. Fruits erect, prominently ribbed, 9–11 x 4–5 mm, with persistent stiff sepals accrescent to 29–32 x 7–8 mm. Seeds c. 7 mm long, difficult to extract.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
10–250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 15896; Newbould 1036; Thulin & Warfa 5513.
Distribution (external)
NE Ethiopia
Djibouti
S Yemen

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