JATROPHA tropaeolifolia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
JATROPHA tropaeolifolia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1910); “Merehan”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 105 (B syn., destr., FT isosyn.) & 275 (B syn., destr.).
Information
Erect succulent glaucous shrub or subshrub to 3 m high, from a tuberuous root, glabrous. Leaves alternate; blade to 10 x 11 cm, palmately 3–5-lobed, cordate at the base, middle lobe obovate-oblate, longer than the laterals, entire or coarsely dentate, tips of lobes rounded with gland-tipped mucro; petiole 4.5–13 cm long. Stipules 2–4 mm long, simple, gland-tipped, becoming hardened and up to 1 cm long. Inflorescence diffuse, up to 20 cm long. Male flowers: calyx c. 2.5 mm long with obtuse lobes; petals c. 4 mm long. Female flowers with 8 apparently functional stamens; ovary glabrous, winged. Fruit broadly obpyramidal, up to c. 30 x 35 mm, winged. Ripe seeds not seen.
Range
C1, 2; S2
Altitude range
90–350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4692; Kuchar 17376; Bally & Melville 15346.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
Notes
Aabeey, joho (Som.). Fruit said to be very poisonous.
JATROPHA tropaeolifolia Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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