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Zygophyllum album

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Name

Identification
Zygophyllum album L. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Zygophyllum proliferum Forssk. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by Hepper,F.N., 1987
Related name
  • Zygophyllum unrecorded
  • Zygophyllum smithii
  • Zygophyllum cornutum
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  • Zygophyllum album
  • Zygophyllum propinquum
  • Zygophyllum decumbens
  • Zygophyllum proliferum
Common name
  • aggaia (HM) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for TETRAENA alba (L. f.) Beier & Thulin [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
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
TETRAENA alba (L. f.) Beier & Thulin [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (2003);
Zygophyllum album L. f. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1762). [type as above]
Zygophyllum amblyocarpum Bak. f. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1894);
Zygophyllum album (Bak. f.) Hadidi var. amblyocarpum [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1978). [type as above]
Information
Dwarf shrub or subshrub to c. 50 cm high, spreading, young parts greyish, cobwebby tomentose. Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets narrowly elliptic to obovate, fleshy, up to 10 mm long; petiole oblong, fleshy, usually longer than the leaflets; stipules membranous, triangular. Flowers axillary, solitary. Sepals ovate-oblong, 4–6 mm long. Petals white with obovate blade, longer than sepals. Filament scale ovate-oblong, acute. Ovary tomentose; style c. 1 mm long. Capsule obconical, 5–10 x 4–7 mm, 5-angled and prominently 5-lobed above.
Range
N1, 2; C1 Red Sea area, North Africa to NE Spain
Altitude range
up to 900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Collenette 134; Glover & Gilliland 664; Peck 6.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Socotra
Eritrea
S Arabia
Notes
Daran (Som.). The populations in tropical Arabia, Somalia and Eritrea have sometimes been treated as Z. amblyocarpum or Z. album var. amblyocarpum. This was said to differ from typical T. alba in having acute and keeled lobes to the capsule. However, the variation seems to be continuous.

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