Cadaba barbigeraGilg [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Cadaba barbigera
Flora
Entry for CADABA barbigera Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Shrub or small tree; young twigs pubescent with glandular hairs 0.3–0.4 mm long mixed with shorter simple hairs. Leaves alternate, rarely clustered; blade obovate-elliptic or oblong, 1.2–4.2 x 0.8–2.5 cm, puberulous, apically rounded to acute, mucronulate, basally rounded or subcordate; petiole 2–3 mm long, densely hairy. Raceme few-flowered, with glandular rhachis 0.7–2.1 cm long; bracts trifid; pedicels 2.2–3.7 cm long, glandular-hairy. Sepals 4, ovate, 7–9 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals 4, with claw 7–9 mm long and blade elliptic-oblong 5–8 mm long. Androphore 0.9–1.7 cm long; appendage tubular, apically enlarged, c. 1 cm long; stamens 4; filaments 1.2–1.5 cm long; anthers c. 3 mm long. Gynophore glandular-hairy, 0.9–1.3 cm long; ovary cylindrical, densely glandular, c. 4 mm long, with sessile, flattened stigma. Unripe fruit apparently torulose, densely covered with stalked glands.
