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Olea somaliensis

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Name

Identification
Olea somaliensis Baker [family OLEACEAE ] Olea europaea L. [family OLEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Green, P.S., Olea chrysophylla Lam. [family OLEACEAE ]
Related name
  • Olea somaliensis
  • Olea chrysophylla
  • Olea europaea

Flora

Entry for OLEA europaea (Wall. ex G. Don) Ciferri subsp. cuspidata [family OLEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OLEA europaea (Wall. ex G. Don) Ciferri subsp. cuspidata [family OLEACEAE], in L´Olivicoltore 19(5): 96 (1942);
OLEA cuspidata Wall. ex G. Don [family OLEACEAE], (1837). Fig. 175. [type as above]
OLEA africana Miller [family OLEACEAE], (1768);
OLEA europaea (Miller) P.S. Green subsp. africana [family OLEACEAE], in Kew Bull. 34: 69 (1979). [type as above]
OLEA chrysophylla Lam. [family OLEACEAE], (1791).
OLEA somaliensis Bak. [family OLEACEAE], (1902);. type: N2, near “Meid”, Hildebrandt 1524 (K holo.).
OLEA chrysophylla (Bak.) Chev. var. somaliensis [family OLEACEAE], in Rev. Bot. Appl. 28: 18 (1948);. type: N2, near “Meid”, Hildebrandt 1524 (K holo.).
OLEA subtrinervata Chiov. [family OLEACEAE], (1940).
Information
Drupe 5–7 mm long.
Range
N1–3 widespread in eastern tropical Africa southwards to South Africa, also in southern Arabia, Pakistan, and eastwards to south-western China.
Altitude range
1000–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4683; Hansen, Heemstra & Abukar Sheikh 6426; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 8958.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Notes
Wagar, weger, wegir, wigir (Som.).Subsp. europaea, with larger edible fruits with a thick fleshy mesocarp, is the cultivated olive, subsp. laperrinei (Batt. & Trabut) Ciferri is the wild olive of the Saharan mountains, and subsp. cerasiformis (Webb & Berth.) Kunkel & Sunding is the wild olive of the Macaronesian Is. (see Green & Wickens in Kit Tan, ed., The Davis & Hedge Festschrift: 287–299, 1989).

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