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Valantia hispida

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Identification
Valantia hispida L. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
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  • Valantia muralis

Flora

Entry for VALANTIA hispida L. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
VALANTIA hispida L. [family RUBIACEAE], (1759). Fig. 51.
Information
Annual, up to 20 cm tall, hispid. Leaves oblanceolate to broadly obovate, c. 5–10 x 2–5 mm. Peduncle and pedicel becoming strongly thickened and dorsally with many straight bristles. Corolla whitish,±cup-shaped and 1.5–2 mm in diam. in bisexual flowers. Mericarps 1–1.5 mm in diam., finely papillose.
Range
N2, 3 from the Canary Is in the west to Iran in the east.
Altitude range
1150–1450 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 15745A; Thulin & Warfa 6178; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 8977.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Socotra
Notes
First record for Somalia.

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