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Commicarpus helenae

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Name

Identification
Commicarpus helenae (Schult.) Meikle [family NYCTAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Boerhavia repanda
  • Commicarpus helenae
  • Boerhavia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for COMMICARPUS helenae (Schult.) Meikle [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
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
COMMICARPUS helenae (Schult.) Meikle [family NYCTAGINACEAE], (1971);
Boerhavia helenae Schult. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], (1822). [type as above]
COMMICARPUS helenae Meikle var. barbatus [family NYCTAGINACEAE], in Kew Bull. 34: 343 (1979).
Information
Stems ± erect, prostrate or scandent, usually less than 1 m long; usually glabrous or nearly so, rarely hairy (var. barbatus). Leaves ovate, 1.5–7 x 1–5.5 cm, cuneate at the base, rounded to acute at the apex, entire or often sinuate to almost lobed; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm. Flowers in 3–4(–5) whorls, sometimes with flowers of lowermost whorl replaced by shortly pedunculate umbels; peduncle up to 4.5–7 cm, rhachis up to 5 cm; pedicels up to 5(–7) mm long in fruit. Perianth-limb pink, mauve or purple, 2–3 mm long. Stamens 2. Anthocarp clavate with rather attenuate base, 5–6.5 mm long, with subapical whorl of stalked glands and scattered well-defined sessile glands along the ribs.
Range
N1; C1, 2; S1–3 Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and west to Senegal and Atlantic Islands, south to Tanzania, Botswana and Angola, north to Egypt and Iran, east to India.
Altitude range
25–1350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/73/133; Gillett, Hemming & Watson 22136; O’Brien 192.
Notes
Ged irman (Som.).

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