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Wendlandia arabica

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Name

Identification
Wendlandia arabica Deflers [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Bridson, D., Wendlandia arabica Deflers [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Puff, C.,
Related name
  • Wendlandia arabica
  • Rondeletia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for WENDLANDIA arabica Deflers [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
WENDLANDIA arabica Deflers [family RUBIACEAE], (1896). Fig. 52.
Information
Shrub or tree up to c. 4 m tall, with rough bark; young branchlets puberulous. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, c. 7–15 x 1.2–5.5 cm, acuminate at the apex, rigid, pale green beneath, puberulous when young. Flowers fragrant, in many-flowered puberulous panicles. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, c. 0.5–1 mm long. Corolla white or cream, lobes sometimes with red midvein; tube 3–5 mm long; lobes 2–3 mm long. Capsules 2–3 mm in diam., finely pubescent. Seeds c. 0.2 mm in diam.
Range
N1–3 subsp. aethiopica Puff in Ethiopia.
Altitude range
1300–1650 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 4225; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Ahmed Osman 10192; Bally 10361.
Distribution (external)
Yemen
Notes
Biyeys (Som.).The Somali material is subsp. arabica. Subsp. aethiopica in Ethiopia was said to have larger leaves and more divaricate branching of the inflorescences, but the variation in Somalia is great and it is doubtful if two taxa should be recognized.

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