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Rhus somalensis

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Name

Identification
Rhus myriantha Baker [family ANACARDIACEAE ] Rhus somalensis Engl. [family ANACARDIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Rhus glaucescens
  • Rhus somalensis
  • Rhus myriantha

Flora

Entry for RHUS somalensis Engl. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
RHUS somalensis Engl. [family ANACARDIACEAE], (1892);. type: N2, “Serrut” Mt near “Meid”, Hildebrandt 1542 (B holo., destr., K iso.).
RHUS myriantha Bak. [family ANACARDIACEAE], (1895);. type: N1, “Golis Range at Woob”, Lort Phillips (K holo.).
Information
Shrub or tree to 10 m tall; branchlets brownish or greyish, minutely scurfy-pubescent when young. Middle leaflets elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, 5–9.5 x 3–5 cm, up to twice as long as wide, cuneate at base, rounded to retuse at apex, entire, leathery, minutely scurfy-pubescent at least when young, much paler beneath, lateral leaflets shorter; midrib, lateral veins and a reticulate tertiary venation prominent particularly above; petiole 1–4 cm long. Panicles equalling or longer than the leaves, scurfy-pubescent, with yellowish flowers. Drupes subglobose, c. 3.5–4 mm in diam., red.
Range
N1–3
Altitude range
1340–2370 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Watson 3223; Collenette 275; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 8945.
Distribution (external)
Oman
Notes
Dambalo areyne, ilka cadeeye, lafho (Som.). The plants in Oman have a more prominent indumentum on branchlets, leaves and inflorescences, but apparently are conspecific.

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