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Seddera arabica

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Identification
Seddera arabica Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sebsebe Demissew, Isotype of Breweria somalensis Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Sebsebe Demissew,
Related name
  • Evolvulus alsinoides
  • Cressa arabica
  • Seddera somalensis
  • Breweria oxycarpa
  • Seddera bottae
  • Breweria somalensis
  • Breweria hispida
  • Seddera arabica
  • Breweria evolvuloides

Flora

Entry for SEDDERA arabica (Forssk.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M.A. García (Cuscuta), Sebsebe Demissew (Cladostigma, Hildebrandtia, Seddera), and M. Thulin (Astripomoea, Convolvulus, Cressa, Dichondra, Evolvulus, Hewittia, Hyalocystis, Ipomoea, Jacquemontia, Merremia, Operculina, Stictocardia, Turbina, Xenostegia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SEDDERA arabica (Forssk.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1845);
Cressa arabica Forssk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1775). Fig. 159. [type as above]
Breweria somalensis Vatke [family ], (1882);. type: N2, near ”Maid”, Hildebrandt 1562 (BM iso.).
Seddera somalensis (Vatke) Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1893);. type: N2, near ”Maid”, Hildebrandt 1562 (BM iso.).
Breweria hispida Franch. [family ], (1882);. type: northern Somalia, without precise locality, Révoil s.n. (P holo., not seen).
Information
Perennial herb, woody at the base, or clump-forming shrub up to 60 cm high; branchlets pubescent with ± golden spreading hairs. Leaf-blades elliptic to ovate, 6–25 x 3–18 mm, obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, rounded at the base, pubescent with ± spreading hairs; petiole 1–1.5 mm long. Flowers in axillary 1–3-flowered cymes; bracteoles linear to linear-lanceolate, 1–3 mm long; peduncle 3–30 mm long; pedicel 2–5.5 mm long. Sepals elliptic or obovate, subequal, 3–5.5 x 1.5 mm, acute, pubescent. Corolla white, 6–8 mm long. Stigmas 2-lobed. Capsule 4.5–7 mm long, glabrous except for tufts of hairs at the apex. Seeds angled, 2.3–2.5 x 1.2 mm.
Range
N1, 2
Altitude range
1150–1900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Collenette 304; Gillett 4962; Newbould 1957.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Egypt
Kenya
Uganda
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Notes
Harama, nagar (Som.).

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