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Pergularia tomentosa

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Name

Identification
Pergularia tomentosa L. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Asclepias cordata
  • Doemia cordata
  • Daemia schmittiana
  • Daemia cordata
  • Doemia schmittiana
  • Cynanchum foetidum
  • Pergularia tomentosa
Common name
  • bakambi (PF) endumiye, endu: breast; incl. other galactogogue plants (JMD) enende (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fatakka (JMD; ZOG) fatakko (JMD; ZOG) fatako (Lely) patako (BM) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bakambi (PF) (NIGER, FULA-FULFULDE (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • monbula (K&B) (IVORY COAST, GAGU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • umu éjlud = mother of skins, hide (AN) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC (Hassaniya)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sallenke (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (East)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sellakha (RM) teshilshit (Rodd) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sokolu (K&B) (IVORY COAST, SHIEN (Chiehn)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • pч́liõ pч́pч́liõ (C-G) (MALI, DOGON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • damargu rafi (RES) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PERGULARIA tomentosa L. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PERGULARIA tomentosa L. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1771).
Information
Scrambling twiner or small shrub; stems and inflorescences tomentose. Leaves with petiole 0.5–2 cm long; blade 1–2.5 x 1–2.5 cm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, apex obtuse to acute, base strongly cordate, tomentose on both surfaces, silvery grey. Peduncles 1–3 cm long; pedicels c. 1.5 cm long. Sepals 1–2 mm long, ovate to lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla cream or yellowish green; tube c. 3 mm long, cylindrical; lobes 3–5 x c. 2 mm, ovate to elliptic, subacute or acute, glabrous to sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous within apart from the long-pubescent base and margins. Corona as in P. daemia but inner corona-lobes only c. 3 mm long.
Range
N1–3. widely distributed around the Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula and into Baluchistan.
Altitude range
below c. 1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4500, 23020; Godding 67.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Ethiopia

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