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Melhania substricta

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Identification
Isotype of Melhania substricta Dorr [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for MELHANIA muricata Balf. f. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MELHANIA muricata Balf. f. [family STERCULIACEAE], (1882).
MELHANIA parvifolia Chiov. [family STERCULIACEAE], (1929);. type: C1, “Ilbehla”, Puccioni & Stefanini 531 (FT lecto., chosen here).
MELHANIA substricta Dorr [family STERCULIACEAE], (2007).
Information
Shrublet, up to c. 0.4 m tall; young stems shortly tomentose. Leaves pubescent to tomentose; petiole 3–15 mm long; stipules up to c. 4 mm long, filiform, soon falling; blade ovate-oblong to elliptic, 10–35(–48) x 6–18(–30) mm, truncate to emarginate at the apex, with serrate-crenate margins. Flowers solitary or rarely in 2-flowered cymes; peduncle and pedicel together up to c. 20 mm long, shortly tomentose; epicalyx bracts 10–25 x 12–25 mm in fruit, reniform, tomentose when young, later pubescent, with a 2–10 mm deep sinus. Sepals c. 2–5 x 1–2 mm, pubescent. Petals 4–7 mm long. Staminodes 2–4 mm long. Style c. 1–1.5 mm long. Capsule 4–7 mm long, subglobose, tomentose, with 2–4-seeded cells. Seeds c. 2 mm long, grey, rough.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2
Altitude range
100–900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5950; Thulin & Abdi Dahir 6531; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7337.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
NE Kenya
Socotra
Yemen
Oman
Notes
Here is included “ M. sp. = Gilbert et al. 7589” of Fl. Eth. 2(2): 175 (1995). This was described as M. substricta by Dorr in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (2007), with type from E Ethiopia. It was stated to occur in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, NE Kenya and in Yemen, and to differ from M. muricata in its less appressed indumentum, longer stipules, smaller epicalyx bracts with a deeper sinus, and smaller sepals. However, the variation in these characters is more or less continuous and they occur in different combinations. Only a single taxon is therefore recognized here. Of the two syntypes of M. parvifolia Puccioni & Stefanini 531 is M. muricata, whereas Puccioni & Stefanini 563 from C1, between “Giré” and “Dablarror” is M. denhamii. Puccioni & Stefanini 531 is here chosen as lectotype.

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