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Loewia glutinosa

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Identification
Loewia glutinosa Urb. [family TURNERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Loewia glutinosa Urb. [family TURNERACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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Flora

Entry for LOEWIA glutinosa Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
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
LOEWIA glutinosa Urb. [family TURNERACEAE], (1897);. type: C1, “Obbia”–“Uarandi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 35 (FT lecto.). Plate 1 C.
LOEWIA glutinosa Chiov. var. microphylla [family TURNERACEAE], Fl. Som.: 175 (1929);. type: N3, “Tabantoh”, Puccioni & Stefanini 715 (FT holo.).
LOEWIA microphylla (Chiov.) Rot. Mich. [family TURNERACEAE], in Webbia 23: 372 (1969);. type: N3, “Tabantoh”, Puccioni & Stefanini 715 (FT holo.).
LOEWIA glutinosa Rot. Mich. var. glabra [family TURNERACEAE], in Webbia 23: 371 (1969);. type: S3, “Licchitore”, Senni 542 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub up to 3 m tall; stems, leaves and calyces ± densely pubescent with stellate hairs or glabrous, and with glandular tubercles secreting a glutinous resin. Leaves alternate on long shoots or clustered on short shoots, simple, elliptic or oblanceolate to ovate or obovate, 1.5–5.5 x 0.4–2.5 cm, subentire to distinctly dentate or crenate in the apical half, narrowing towards the base into a short petiole. Flowers on articulated pedicel up to c. 15 mm long; bracteoles entire to pinnatifid. Calyx 10–20 mm long, with 3–5 mm long lobes, each usually with a horn-like projection near the apex. Petals orange, free part c. 7–10 x 5–6.5 mm. Capsules broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 7–15 x 6–12 mm. Seeds 4–5 x 2–2.5 mm; aril white, usually 3–4 mm long.
Range
N3; C1, 2; S3 the probably conspecific L. tanaensis Urb. (1898) in E Kenya.
Altitude range
(50–)150–300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & Watson 23437; Gillett, Hemming & Watson 22043; Thulin & Abdi Dahir 6436.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
Notes
Ba-la-lak, rumassan (Som.). As conceived here, L. glutinosa varies considerably as regards, e.g., indumentum and leaf-shape. The single collection seen from S3 (the type of var. glabra) is glabrous or almost so. The same applies to most of the collections from the inland dunes of SE Hiiraan in C2 (e. g. Thulin & Abdi Dahir 6436), but these also differ in their subentire and narrower, ± oblanceolate, leaves. L. microphylla is here interpreted as a depauperate form from arid parts of Bari Region.

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