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Rhigozum somalense

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Name

Identification
Rhigozum somalense Hallier f. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] (stored under name);
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  • Rhigozum somalense

Flora

Entry for RHIGOZUM somalense Hall. f. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Tardelli & L. Settesoldi (Jacaranda, Kigelia, Markhamia, Rhigozum, Tecoma) and M. Thulin (Crescentia, Spathodea, Tabebuia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
RHIGOZUM somalense Hall. f. [family BIGNONIACEAE], (1902);. type: N1, “Dadab”, Ellenbeck 165 (B holo. destr., K iso). Fig. 211.
Information
Shrub, up to 3 m tall, glabrous; branchlets with weakly spinescent tips. Leaves solitary or 2–3 clustered on cushions, 3-foliolate; petiole 2–4 mm long, sulcate; leaflets obcordate to orbicular, c. 2–6 x 2–4 mm, puberulous, the terminal one attenuate into short petiolule at the base, the lateral ones subsessile, oblique. Flowers pedicelled, glabrous. Calyx c. 3 mm long, irregularly 5-toothed. Corolla yellow, c. 12 mm long; tube c. 3 mm long; lobes suborbicular, subequal, c. 6 mm wide. Stamen-filaments 7–10 mm long, inserted deeply in corolla-tube; anthers c. 3 mm long, dorsifixed. Disk ring-shaped. Style up to 11 mm long, filiform. Capsule 1–3 x 0.5–1.4 cm, greyish-brown, beaked. Seeds c. 6 x 8 mm, excluding the winged margin.
Range
N1
Altitude range
100–700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4455; Popov 57/1; Glover & Gilliland 874.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Yemen
Notes
Benin, binin (Som.).

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