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Sterculia rhynchocarpa

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Identification
Sterculia rhynchocarpa K.Schum. [family STERCULIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Sterculia triphaca R.Br. [family STERCULIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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  • Sterculia triphaca
  • Sterculia rhynchocarpa

Flora

Entry for STERCULIA rhynchocarpa K. Schum. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STERCULIA rhynchocarpa K. Schum. [family STERCULIACEAE], (1904). Fig. 19 H.
STERCULIA rivae (K. Schum.) Chiov. [family STERCULIACEAE], (1916);
STERCULIA africana (K. Schum.) Cuf. var. rivae [family STERCULIACEAE], Enum.: XXVIII (1969). [type as above]
Information
Spreading shrub, or tree up to 6 m tall; bark in larger plants peeling in papery flakes; branchlets pubescent. Leaves pubescent; petiole 0.5–2 cm long; blade 1–4.5(–6) x 0.7–5(–8) cm, broadly ovate, shallowly 3-lobed with acute to rounded lobes or entire. Flowers in 0.2–1.5(–2) cm long puberulous clusters or racemes. Calyx up to 10 mm long, yellowish to reddish with greenish lobes, pubescent outside. Male flowers with androphore up to 7 mm long. Female flowers with gynophore up to 5 mm long. Follicles 3.5–8.5(–12) cm long, thick-walled, rough to almost spiny, tomentose with short greyish to yellowish hairs, with a horn-like beak 1–3 cm long at the apex, opening up partly only. Seeds (11–)12–15 x 8–10 mm, bluish grey.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
10–800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6877; Gillett & Hemming 24317; Hemming 1385.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
NE Tanzania
Notes
Carare, dhanrab, dharab, garaho, qararro (Som.).

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