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Camptoloma lyperiiflorum

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Identification
Isotype of Camptoloma villosa Balf.f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Camptoloma lyperiiflorum (Vatke) O.M.Hilliard [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Olive Hilliard, 1991
Related name
  • Lyperia unrecorded
  • Camptoloma lyperiiflorum
  • Camptoloma villosa

Flora

Entry for CAMPTOLOMA lyperiiflorum (Vatke) Hilliard [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
CAMPTOLOMA lyperiiflorum (Vatke) Hilliard [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1991);. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 863a (W iso.). Fig. 181.
Urbania lyperiiflora Vatke [family VERBENACEAE], (1875), as “ lyperiaeflora”;. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 863a (W iso.). Fig. 181.
Chaenostoma lyperiiflorum (Vatke) Wettst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1891);. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 863a (W iso.). Fig. 181.
Sutera lyperiiflora (Vatke) Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1906);. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, Hildebrandt 863a (W iso.). Fig. 181.
Camptoloma villosum Balf. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1883), as “ villosa ”.
Information
Herb or subshrub up to 60 cm tall, covered by 1–4 mm long glandular hairs. Leaf-blades broadly ovate to suborbicular, 9–35 x 7–42 mm, cordate at the base, with shallowly lobed or toothed margins; petiole 6–40 mm long. Flowers 1(–2) in leaf-axils, sometimes tufts of very short shoots at ground level producing cleistogamous flowers; pedicels up to c. 10–17 mm long. Calyx-lobes 5–5.5(–7) mm long, spathulate. Corolla-tube c. 9.5–11 mm long, glabrous inside; limb 5–6 mm across, white or cream with reddish markings. Capsule 5–8 mm long. Seeds 0.3–0.5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
near sea level to 1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lavranos in Bally & Melville 15537; Puccioni & Stefanini 604; Lavranos & Carter 23496.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Yemen
Oman
Notes
The glandular hairs of this species hold surprising amounts of water.

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