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Senra incana

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Name

Identification
Senra incana Cav. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Senra incana Cav. [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Gossypium obtusifolium
  • Dumreichera arabica
  • Senra incana
  • Senra arabica
  • Senra nubica
  • Gossypium bakeri
  • Gossypium stocksii
  • Senra unrecorded

Flora

Entry for SENRA incana Cav. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SENRA incana Cav. [family MALVACEAE], (1786). Fig. 32.
SENRA zoes Volkens & Schweinf. [family MALVACEAE], (1897).
SENRA nubica Mattei var. scassellatii [family MALVACEAE], in Boll. R. Orto Bot. Palermo (nuova ser.) 2: 67 (1917);. type: S3, Scassellati 132 (? PAL holo., not seen).
SENRA incana (Mattei) Senni var. scassellatii [family MALVACEAE], in Gli alberi e le formazioni legnose della Somalia: 58 (1935);. type: S3, Scassellati 132 (? PAL holo., not seen).
SENRA nubica Mattei var. microphylla [family MALVACEAE], in Boll. R. Orto Bot. Palermo (nuova ser.) 2: 67 (1917);. type: S3, Macaluso 156 (PAL holo., not seen).
SENRA incana Chiov. subsp. migiurtinorum [family MALVACEAE], in Fl. Somala 1: 97 (1929);. types: N3, Stefanini & Puccioni 641 & 675 (FT syn.).
Information
Annual or perennial herb or shrub, up to 1.5 m tall; stems densely pubescent to tomentose, or pilose with long simple spreading hairs. Leaves with 1–8 cm long petiole; blade ± reniform in outline, 2–8.5 x 2–9 cm, cordate at the base, 3-lobed with acute to rounded lobes, dentate to subentire, pubescent to tomentose, more densely so beneath. Flowers open in the morning only. Pedicels 3–20 mm long, articulated. Epicalyx bracts 15–30 x 13–25 mm, deeply cordate at the base, subacute to rounded at the apex. Calyx 9–14 mm long, pubescent to pilose; lobes narrowly ovate with 3 distinct veins. Petals 2–3 cm long, dark purple to almost black, or yellow with purple base. Capsule 5–8 mm long, subglobose, subglabrous; seeds 3–4 mm long, densely pubescent.
Range
N1–3; C2; S1–3 Arabia to India.
Altitude range
50–1200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5944; Warfa 1001; Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 345.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
NE Kenya
Notes
Balambal (Som.). S. incana is very variable in its indumentum as well as in flower colour. Vollesen in Fl. Eth. 2(2): 216 (1995) treated S. zoes as distinct from S. incana and pointed to differences in the indumentum of stems, calyces and seeds. At the same time he admitted that S. zoes may be only an extreme variant of S. incana. The long, spreading hairs of the stems characteristic of S. zoes may indeed be striking, but in Somalia there are intermediates in this as well as in all other characters mentioned by Vollesen. I therefore prefer to treat S. incana as a single variable taxon.

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