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Nogalia drepanophylla

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Identification
Isotype of Nogalia drepanophylla (Baker) Verdc. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Heliotropium unrecorded unrecorded [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heliotropium curassavicum
  • Heliotropium drepanophyllum
  • Nogalia drepanophylla
  • Heliotropium unrecorded

Flora

Entry for NOGALIA drepanophylla (Bak.) Verdc. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin (Argusia, Arnebia, Bourreria, Coldenia, Cynoglossum, Cystostemon, Echiochilon, Ehretia, Heliotropium, Nogalia, Trichodesma, Wellstedia) & A. M. Warfa (Cordia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
NOGALIA drepanophylla (Bak.) Verdc. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1988);
Heliotropium drepanophyllum Bak. [family BORAGINACEAE], (1894). [type as above]
Information
Plant up to 60 cm tall, sparsely to densely pubescent or pilose. Leaves linear to elliptic or narrowly ovate, often with revolute margins, sometimes clustered on axillary short-shoots, 1–3 x 0.2–1.2 cm, sessile or narrowing below into a petiole-like base, obtuse to subacute at the apex. Flowers subsessile in fairly lax cymes. Calyx 3–5 mm long. Corolla yellow to white, 4.5–7 mm long, with oblong lobes. Stigmatic head c. 1 mm long, shortly hairy. Fruit 3–5 mm in diam., densely hairy.

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