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Verbascum keniense

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Filed as Celsia keniensis Murb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Syntype of Celsia keniensis Murb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Syntype of Celsia keniensis Murb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Verbascum keniense (Murb.) Hub.-Mor. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Montes de Oca, P., 2012 Celsia keniensis Murb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Montes de Oca, P., 2012
Related name
  • Verbascum keniense
  • Celsia keniensis

Flora

Entry for Rhabdotosperma keniense (Murbeck) Hartl [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
Rhabdotosperma keniense (Murbeck) Hartl [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1977), as “ keniensis ”;
Celsia keniensis Murbeck [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1925);. [type as above]
Verbascum keniense (Murbeck) Huber-Morath [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1973). Fig. 177. [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb, 40–100 cm tall; stem erect. Lower leaves petiolate, oblong, 50–120 x 15–40 mm, pinnatifid with 1–2 small lateral segments 2–10 mm long, obtuse, crenate, with broadly ovate to rounded base, glandular-pubescent; upper leaves sessile, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, with truncate or subcordate base. Inflorescence a lax raceme, bracts acuminate, densely glandular-pubescent; fruiting pedicels 10–25 mm long. Calyx-lobes 5–7.5 mm long, oblong-linear, entire, glandular-pubescent. Corolla yellow, 22–28 mm in diam., glabrous outside. Stamens 4; filaments densely bearded, anterior (lower) anthers about twice as long as posterior (upper) ones, 1.5–2 mm long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 6–10 mm long. Capsule 5–6.5 mm long and 4–5 mm wide.
Range
N2
Altitude range
2025–2250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 11270; Collenette 354.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya

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