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Oldenlandia fastigiata

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Identification
Isotype of Oldenlandia fastigiata Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt,B., Oldenlandia corymbosa L. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Oldenlandia capensis
  • Oldenlandia somala
  • Oldenlandia corymbosa
  • Oldenlandia fastigiata
  • Oldenlandia pellucida

Flora

Entry for OLDENLANDIA fastigiata Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OLDENLANDIA fastigiata Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1952).
Information
Annual or perennial herb; stems erect or ascending, up to c. 60 cm long, glabrous or scabrid. Leaves sessile; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 10–50 x 1–5 mm, acute at the apex, glabrous to minutely scabrid above and on midvein beneath; stipule sheath 1–2 mm long, with some 0.5–2.5 mm long fimbriae. Flowers isostylous or heterostylous, in 3–10-flowered sessile or pedunculate axillary cymes or clusters; pedicels 1–4 mm long. Calyx-lobes 1–2 mm long, with scabrid margins. Corolla white or tinged blue or pink; tube 1–1.6 mm long, densely hairy at throat; lobes 0.7–2 mm long. Capsule 1–2 mm long, glabrous, with scarcely raised beak. Seeds pale brown, c. 0.3 mm long, reticulate.

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