Pupalia robecchiiLopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Pupalia robecchiiLopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
Pupalia robecchii
Flora
Entry for PUPALIA robecchii Lopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Dwarf and suffruticose to shrubby or scrambling, 0.2–2 m, much-branched, stem and branches densely whitish- to greenish-tomentose when young, brownish and glabrescent with age. Leaves subrotund to very broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, c. 8–27 x 7–20 mm, obtuse to broadly and shallowly retuse, abruptly contracted below to a distinct (to c. 1.5 cm) petiole, densely tomentose to rather thinly pilose on both surfaces. Inflorescences at first dense, elongating to as much as 14 cm in fruit including the peduncle, axis and peduncle ± densely tomentose. Partial inflorescences mostly of 1 fertile flower subtended on each side by a triad of one fertile and two steriles; sterile flowers stellately 3-branched, each branch terminating in 6–12 yellowish hooked setae up to 4.5 mm long in 3 ranks. Tepals narrowly oblong-lanceolate, (6–)6.5–7.5(–8) mm, 3-nerved, densely tomentose, the inner 3 slightly shorter. Style slender, 3–4 mm. Capsule ovoid-pyriform, c. 2 mm.
