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Kohautia caespitosa

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Name

Identification
Hedyotis schimperi C.Presl [family RUBIACEAE ] Kohautia caespitosa (C.Presl) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Kohautia somaliensis
  • Kohautia densifolia
  • Oldenlandia amaniensis
  • Hedyotis brachyloba
  • Oldenlandia sarcophylla
  • Hedyotis schimperi
  • Hedyotis herbacea(?)
  • Oldenlandia obbiadensis
  • Kohautia aspera
  • Kohautia lasiocarpa
  • Kohautia caespitosa
  • Kohautia unrecorded
  • Oldenlandia schimperi
  • Unrecorded unrecorded
  • Kohautia brachyloba
  • Oldenlandia senegalensis
  • Oldenlandia schweinfurthii
  • Oldenlandia delagoensis
  • Oldenlandia welwitschii
  • Oldenlandia unrecorded
  • Kohautia longiscapa

Flora

Entry for KOHAUTIA caespitosa Schnizl. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
KOHAUTIA caespitosa Schnizl. [family RUBIACEAE], (1842).
Oldenlandia schimperi Bak. f. var. somalensis [family RUBIACEAE], in J. Bot. 37: 59 (1899);. type: N1, Mt ”Wagga”, Lort Phillips s.n. (BM holo.).
Oldenlandia obbiadensis Chiov. [family RUBIACEAE], (1929);. type: C1, between “Adani” and “Uarandi”, Stefanini & Puccioni 496 (FT holo.).
KOHAUTIA obbiadensis (Chiov.) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1952);. type: C1, between “Adani” and “Uarandi”, Stefanini & Puccioni 496 (FT holo.).
Oldenlandia sarcophylla Chiov. [family RUBIACEAE], (1932);. type: S2, Mogadishu, Senni 572 (FT holo.).
KOHAUTIA sarcophylla (Chiov.) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1952);. type: S2, Mogadishu, Senni 572 (FT holo.).
KOHAUTIA baddadensis Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1952);. type: S3, ”Baddada”, Senni 307 (FT holo.).
KOHAUTIA somaliensis Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1952);. type: N1, “Hargeisa”, Gillett 4344 (K holo., FT iso.).
Information
Annual or perennial herb, 5–75 cm tall; stems glabrous to densely pubescent. Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, 5–80 x 0.5–12 mm, acute, glabrous to densely pubescent, flat or with recurved margins; stipule sheath 1–2 mm long, with 2–5 up to 3 mm long fimbriae. Flowers in lax often dichasial cymes. Calyx-lobes lanceolate to triangular, 0.5–2 mm long, glabrous to pubescent. Corolla white, yellowish, dull red or brownish; tube 8–14 mm long, glabrous in throat; lobes 2–6 mm long. Style 1.5–4 mm long with 2-lobed stigma. Capsule 1.5–4 x 2–4.5 mm, glabrous or shortly hairy. Seeds brownish, c. 0.3–0.4 mm long.
Range
N1, 3; C1, 2; S2, 3 widespread in tropical and southern Africa, and on the Arabian peninsula.
Altitude range
10–1100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4688; Thulin & Warfa 5376, 5993.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Notes
Manjaab (Som.).This is a variable taxon in Somalia, and K. obbiadensis with narrow leaves, K. sarcophylla with fleshy leaves, and K. baddadensis with wide leaves have previously been regarded as distinct species. Verdcourt in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1976) subdivided the species into four varities in East Africa, and Mantell in Fl. Zamb. 5(1): 88 (1989) stated that the species should be divided into three subspecies, but her classification has never been properly published.

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