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Zygophyllum decumbens

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Identification
Zygophyllum decumbens Delil. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Becker, J.,
Related name
  • Zygophyllum maximiliani
  • Zygophyllum album
  • Zygophyllum propinquum
  • Zygophyllum coccineum
  • Zygophyllum decumbens
  • Zygophyllum dregeanum

Flora

Entry for TETRAENA decumbens (Delile) Beier & Thulin [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
TETRAENA decumbens (Delile) Beier & Thulin [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (2003);
Zygophyllum decumbens Delile [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1813). [type as above]
Information
Shrublet with decumbent branches, glabrous or glandular, glaucous. Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets ± obovate, flat, up to c. 15 x 10 mm; petiole c. 4–6 mm long; stipules membranous, ± narrowly triangular, fringed. Flowers in loose several-flowered cymes. Sepals c. 2 mm long. Petals white, c. 4 mm long. Filament scale oblong, bipartite. Ovary glabrous; style c. 2 mm long. Capsule obconical, deeply 5-parted, up to 10 mm long.
Range
N2, 3 along Red Sea coasts in Sudan and Egypt, S Arabia, South Africa.
Altitude range
770–1700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 594; Glover & Gilliland 618; Peck 255.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Notes
Baskala (Som.). Z. decumbens var. megacarpum A. Hosny (1977) with type from Egypt was also said to occur in Somalia, although no specimens were cited. It is apparently no more than a robust form of T. decumbens.

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