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Oligomeris linifolia

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Name

Identification
Oligomeris subulata unrecorded [family RESEDACEAE ] Verified by Kralik, Oligomeris linifolia J.F.Macbr. [family RESEDACEAE ] (stored under name); Reseda subulata Delil. [family RESEDACEAE ] Verified by Kralik,
Related name
  • Oligomeris dregeana
  • Oligomeris linifolia
  • Reseda schimperi
  • Reseda subulata
  • Oligomeris subulata
Common name
  • Flaxleaf-whitepuff, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • desert-spike, Flora of North America Vol. 7

Flora

Entry for OLIGOMERIS linifolia (Vahl) Macbride [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
OLIGOMERIS linifolia (Vahl) Macbride [family RESEDACEAE], (1918). Fig. 42.
Information
Annual or perennial herb, up to 50 cm tall, glabrous. Leaves numerous, linear to linear-spathulate, 10–40 x 1–2 mm, glaucous. Flowers white, bisexual, in elongating spikes; bracts with white margins. Sepals 2–4(–5), 1–2 mm long. Petals 2, persistent. Stamens 3–4, about as long as petals. Ovary ovoid-globose, sulcate, with 4 conical apical teeth. Capsules 2.5–3.5 mm long and wide, glabrous, scabrid or ridged, deeply sulcate. Seeds becoming black, smooth or practically so, glossy.
Range
N2 Canary Is., N Africa, Central Saharan Mts, Israel, Egypt, Arabia and eastwards to NW India, also in S USA and Mexico.
Altitude range
c. 2000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 15989.

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