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Schlechterella africana

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Name

Identification
Pleurostelma africanum Schltr. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Schlechterella africana (Schltr.) K.Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Tacazzea africana (Schltr.) N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ]
Related name
  • Tacazzea africana
  • Pleurostelma africanum
  • Schlechterella africana

Flora

Entry for SCHLECHTERELLA africana (Schltr.) K. Schum. [family ]
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
SCHLECHTERELLA africana (Schltr.) K. Schum. [family ], (1900);
Pleurostelma africana Schltr. [family ], (1895);. [type as above]
Tacazzea africana (Schltr.) N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1902). Fig. 95A, B. [type as above]
Information
Glabrous climber up to 1.5 m tall; lateral shoots sometimes stunted. Leaves opposite on normal shoots, in verticillate clusters on stunted lateral shoots, sessile to shortly petiolate; blade linear to very narrowly ovate, 45–85 x 2–10 mm, obtuse to attenuate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, with revolute and undulate margin. Inflorescences lax, frail, with few-flowered, monochasial branches; peduncles 2–10 mm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Sepals 1 x 0.5 mm, ovate-triangular, acute. Corolla-tube shallowly campanulate, 0.5–0.7 mm long; lobes oblong-ovate, slightly reflexed, 6–11 x 2–4 mm, creamy yellow, pale greenish, white flushed mauve or pale mauve, acute. Corona-lobes creamy yellow; basal part columnar, 2–3 mm long; terminal part 2- or 3-fid, segments filiform, 2–4 mm long. Follicles cylindrical-ovoid with blunt to acute tip, 85 x 5 mm, reddish-brown.
Range
S1
Altitude range
c. 300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Tardelli 83.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique

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