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Cadaba farinosa

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Name

Identification
Cadaba adenotricha Gilg & Benedict [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Cadaba farinosa Not on sheet. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cadaba dubia
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  • Cadaba mombassana
  • Cadaba kiboes
  • Cadaba adenotricha
  • Cadaba farinosa
  • Cadaba unrecorded
  • Cadaba apiculata
  • Maerua rigida
  • Cadaba benguellensis
  • Cadaba heterotricha
  • Cleome fruticosa

Flora

Entry for CADABA farinosa Forssk. [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]
Names
CADABA farinosa Forssk. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1775).
Information
Slender shrub; young twigs densely covered with sessile or subsessile scales, sometimes mixed with stiff glandular and eglandular hairs. Leaves alternate on young shoots, clustered on older wood; blade elliptic to obovate, 4–40 x 3–25(–30) mm, apically rounded or retuse, mucronulate, basally rounded or cuneate, farinose on both surfaces or glabrescent; petiole up to 3–4 mm long, densely farinose. Raceme few-flowered, with farinose rhachis 0.8–3(–4.5) cm long; bracts trifid, with reduced central segment; pedicels 0.7–1.5 cm long, farinose. Sepals 4, ovate-elliptic, commonly 5–12 x 4 mm, farinose outside, puberulous at margins. Petals 4, with claw 6–7 mm long and oblanceolate blade, 4–5 mm long. Androphore 7–9 mm long; appendage tubular, apically enlarged, 6–7 mm long; stamens 5; filaments 1–1.4 cm long; anthers 3.5 mm long. Gynophore 0.8–1.2 cm long, sparsely covered with subsessile or short-stalked glands; ovary cylindrical, 4–4.5 x 0.5–0.8 mm, farinose, with flattened sessile stigma. Fruit cylindrical, ± torulose, 2.2–4 x 0.2–0.3 cm, densely farinose.
Notes
Anamice, caanamacays, ditab, dornai, mnioca-pala, qalaanqal (Som.).

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