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Cistanche tubulosa

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Name

Identification
Cistanche tubulosa (Schrenk) R.Wight [family OROBANCHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A. Gills, 1966
Related name
  • Cistanche tubulosa
  • Phelipaea senegalensis
  • Cistanche lutea
  • Cistanche senegalensis

Flora

Entry for CISTANCHE phelypaea (L.) Cout. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CISTANCHE phelypaea (L.) Cout. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1913);
Lathraea phelypaea L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1753). Fig. 204. [type as above]
Phelipaea tubulosa Schenk [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1840);
CISTANCHE tubulosa (Schenk.) Hook.f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1884). [type as above]
CISTANCHE allochroa Chiov. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1916);. type: S3, “Giumbo”, Paoli 252 (FT syn., not seen), “El Sai”, Paoli 297 (FT syn.).
Information
Stem up to 40 cm or more tall; stem often swollen towards the base, glabrous, yellow to grey-violet. Scale-leaves (15–)20–30 x 5–12 mm, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous. Inflorescence dense and 5–9 cm wide. Calyx 12–18 mm long; lobes overlapping. Corolla 30–50 mm long, first erect, later curved outwards, usually bright yellow or with the lobes mauve-edged, sometimes white flushed pinkish-mauve. Anthers densely hairy. Stigma-lobes white.
Range
N1, 3; C1, 2; S1–3 East Africa, Ethiopia, northern Africa and eastwards to India.
Altitude range
0–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7571; Hansen & Heemstra 6111; Wood S/72/92.
Notes
The circumscription and distribution of species of Cistanche are uncertain and the placing of all Somali material in C. phelypaea is tentative. Variation is considerable and, for example, in some collections from N3 the flowers are described as white flushed pinkish-mauve. Salvadora persica, Bridelia somalensis and species of Boerhavia have been recorded as host plants in Somalia. The plant is used as a remedy for diarrhoea and menstrual disorders in Somali traditional medicine.

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