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Limeum diffusum

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Isotype of Limeum diffusum (J.Gay) Schinz [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
Filed as Limeum diffusum (Gay.) Ochinz. [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
Holotype of Gaudinia diffusa J.Gay [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
Limeum diffusum (J.Gay) Schinz [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Limeum diffusum (Gay.) Ochinz. [family MOLLUGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A. Fournier, 1986
Related name
  • Gardinia unrecorded
  • Gardinia diffusa
  • Limeum linifolium
  • Gardinia berrottetii
  • Limeum diffusum
  • Limeum africanum
  • Gaudinia diffusa
  • Decarpaea linifolia
  • Semonvillea unrecorded
  • Limeum linifolia
Common name
  • maïtara (JMD) (MALI, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Limeum diffusum (Gay) Schinz [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 1,
Names
Limeum diffusum (Gay) Schinz [family MOLLUGINACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5, App. 3: 69 (1897); Schellenb. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 50, Suppl. 158 (1914).
Gaudinia diffusa Gay [family POACEAE], in FerussBullScNat18: 412 (1829)
Limeum linifolium [family MOLLUGINACEAE], of F.T.A2: 596, partly; F.W.T.A., ed1, 1: 113; ChevFlViv1: 328; not of (Preal) Fenzl in AnnWienMus1: 342 (1836), based on Dicarpaea linifolia Presl (1832).
Information
A diffuse glabrous annual.
Distribution
Sen. R. Senegal (Oct.) Leprieur! Richard Tol (Sept.) Perrottet!Fr. Sud. Timbuktu (July, Aug.) Chev. 1310; 2715. Goundam (Aug.) Chev. 2518.Fr. Nig. Tiggarouba Le Rumeur 74.
Distribution (external)
Mauritania
Kanem east of L. Chad
Notes
[L. linifolia (Presl) Fenzl is based on a plant said to have been collected in the Cape of Good Hope by Sieber, and is probably the correct name for the S. African plant which is somewhat different.—R.W.J.K.) (See Appendix, p. 30.)

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