ZIZIPHUS mucronata Willd. [family RHAMNACEAE]

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
ZIZIPHUS mucronata Willd. [family RHAMNACEAE], (1809). Fig. 102 A.
Information
Shrub or tree up to 10 m or more tall, usually ± spiny but sometimes unarmed; bark dark grey, fissured; branchlets reddish to brownish. Leaves glabrous or puberulous on petiole and midrib; petiole 2–13 mm long; blade ovate, 2–9 x 1.5–6 cm, serrulate or crenulate, usually acute to acuminate at the apex, often asymmetrical at the base. Flowers glabrous, yellowish-green, in few- to many-flowered cymes. Sepals 1.5–2 mm long. Petals 1–1.5 mm long. Drupe 10–15 mm in diam., reddish.
Range
N1–3; C2; S1–3 widespread in drier parts of tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, and in Arabia.
Altitude range
30–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5866; Wood S/73/54; Gillett & al. 25069.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Notes
Gob, gub, xamur (Som.). The Somali plants belong to subsp. mucronata. Subsp. rhodesica R. B. Drummond, with brownish-tomentose leaf-blades, occurs from Zambia and southwards.
ZIZIPHUS mucronata Willd. [family RHAMNACEAE]
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