Isotype of Sopubia similisSkan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Sopubia ramosa(Hochst.) Hochst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Sopubia ramosa
Sopubia similis
Sopubia trifida
Flora
Entry for SOPUBIA similis Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
SOPUBIA similisSkan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Information
Apparently a much dwarfer plant than S. ramosa, Schimper's specimen being only 1 ft. high with several rather slender stems arising from a short woody stock; stems shortly pilose, the hairs in lines alternating with the insertion of the leaves. Leaves mostly in whorls of 3, usually trifid or sometimes with 4 or 5 segments; segments narrowly linear, very scabrid, acuminate. Pedicels, flowers and capsules as in S. ramosa.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land without precise locality, Schimper, 695!British East Africa Nile Land or Uganda;between Kikuya and Eldama Ravine, Whyte!
Notes
Schimper's 1368, from the Dembea Plain, is allied to this, but it is much less hairy, and the flowers are smaller, with longer pedicels. It seems intermediate between the above and S. trifida; it is erroneously referred to S. ramosa in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 383.
