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Verbascum sinaiticum

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Name

Identification
Verbascum sinaiticum Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Verbascum somaliense
  • Verbascum ternacha
  • Verbascum sinaiticum

Flora

Entry for Verbascum sinaiticum Benth. [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
Verbascum sinaiticum Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1846). Fig. 176.
Verbascum somaliense Baker [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1895);. type: N1, “Golis” range, Cole s.n. (K lecto.).
Information
Plant biennial, 60–200 cm tall; stem erect, richly branched, densely greyish-tomentose without glandular hairs. Leaves entire, densely greyish-tomentose; basal leaves with oblong or ovate-oblong blade, 60–300 x 40–140 mm, dentate, with 20–90 mm long petiole; stem leaves with shorter petiole or sessile, rounded-truncate at the base. Inflorescence with numerous long branches; flowers in 2–7-flowered clusters (partial inflorescences); lower bracts subcordate-triangular, shortly cuspidate, scarcely longer than partial inflorescences, upper bracts shorter than partial inflorescences; pedicel of primary flower of a cluster 4–10 mm long. Calyx-lobes densely tomentose, 4–7 mm long, oblong, entire, acute. Corolla yellow, 20–28 mm in diam., densely pilose with branched hairs outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 5, pilose with dark yellow hairs; anthers reniform. Ovary ovoid, densely tomentose; style 7–10 mm long. Capsule 5–8 mm long and 3–4 mm wide.
Range
N1–3 from Sinai, Israel, Jordania and Syria to Afghanistan and south-central Asia, introduced as weed into Yemen.
Altitude range
1425–2025 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 15838; Hansen, Heemstra & Abukar Sheikh; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 9049.
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya

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