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Ochradenus baccatus

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Identification
Ochradenus baccatus Delile [family RESEDACEAE ] Verified by M. Abdallah, 1967 Ochradenus arabicus Chaudhary, Hillc.&A.G.Mill. [family RESEDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Tony G. Miller, 1983
Related name
  • Ochradenus arabicus
  • Ochradenus gracilis
  • Reseda apetala
  • Reseda spartioides
  • Ochradenus aucheri
  • Ochradenus baccatus
  • Ochradenus dewittii
  • Ochradenus dioicus
  • Reseda linifolia

Flora

Entry for OCHRADENUS baccatus Del. [family RESEDACEAE]
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
OCHRADENUS baccatus Del. [family RESEDACEAE], (1813). Fig. 41 A–E.
Information
Broom-like shrub, sometimes straggling or flat on the ground, usually glabrous, up to 3 m tall. Leaves linear, 10–50 x 1–2(–4) mm. Flowers yellowish or greenish in mostly long racemes. Sepals 1–1.5 mm long. Petals absent or very minute and caducous. Disc single. Stamens 12–18. Ovary cylindric, with 3 apical blunt teeth. Capsules berry-like, globose, 4–6 mm in diam., closed at the apex. Seeds minutely papillose, brown to black.
Range
N1–3 Socotra, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Arabia and eastwards to Pakistan.
Altitude range
15–1900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 4351, 4362; Hansen & Heemstra 6231, 6232.
Notes
Mirho, mirro, miru, mirug, morro, myro, myrrhau (Som.). Beckett s.n. from N1 (10°05’N, 46°01’E), 750 m, has elongated, 15 mm long fruits, but is presumably nothing but a galled specimen of O. baccatus.

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