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Secamone punctulata

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Identification
Secamone punctulata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Secamone sansibariensis
  • Secamone micrandra
  • Secamone emetica
  • Secamone attenuifolia
  • Secamone attenuata
  • Secamone punctulata
  • Periploca mauritiana
  • Secamone stenophylla

Flora

Entry for SECAMONE punctulata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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
SECAMONE punctulata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1844). Fig. 98.
Information
Thin wiry climber or small shrub. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade 1.3–5 x 0.1–2 cm, lanceolate to elliptic, apex acute or slightly attenuate to obtuse or rounded, apiculate, base rounded or obtuse, glabrous or glabrescent. Inflorescences numerous, 5–20 x 2–25 mm, the cymes few-flowered and subumbellate on short peduncles or larger and more diffuse, sometimes on leafless shoots; peduncles (1–)4–15 mm long; pedicels 0.5–2(–5) mm long. Corolla orange or yellow, sweet-scented; tube 0.3–0.6(–0.8) mm long, broadly campanulate; lobes 1.2–2 x 0.6–0.8 mm. Staminal corona lobes erect, green or white. Apical portion of stigmatic head exserted c. 0.2–0.4 mm from the staminal column, obconic or clavate. Follicles widely divergent, (3.5–)4.5–5.5 x 0.3–0.5 cm, slender, attenuate.
Range
N1 eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Tanzania, with a more narrow-leaved form occurring sporadically elsewhere in tropical Africa.
Altitude range
c. 1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 16236; Gillett 4711.

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