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Ruttya fruticosa

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Identification
Ruttya fruticosa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ruttya fruticosa

Flora

Entry for RUTTYA fruticosa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
RUTTYA fruticosa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], (1894);. type: N2, “Serrut” Mt near “Meid”, Hildebrandt 893 (B holo., destr.). Fig. 273.
Information
Shrub, up to 3 m tall; twigs often pendent. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 3–12 x 1–4.5 cm, wrinkled, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowing into a short petiole at the base. Flowers in terminal cymes. Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, 4–6 mm long. Corolla orange red to brick red, c. 5 cm across, mouth brownish black, wrinkled and shiny; upper lip erect, deeply 2-lobed, 15–20 mm long; lower lip deflexed with middle lobe 18–20 mm long; tube c. 10 mm long. Style 3–4 cm long. Capsule up to c. 40 x 8 mm.
Range
N1, 2
Altitude range
1200–1900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4982; Hemming 1951; White 172.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Yemen
Oman
Notes
Dicri, elas (Som.).

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