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POLYSPHAERIA multiflora Verdc. subsp. pubescens [family RUBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POLYSPHAERIA multiflora Verdc. subsp. pubescens [family RUBIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 35: 127 (1980).
Plectronia guidottii Chiov. [family OLINIACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, "Mansur", Guidotti 212 (MOD holo.).
Information
Inflorescences shortly pedunculate or subsessile; calyx and corolla puberulous outside.
Range
S3
Altitude range
10–50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Maunder 172A; Hemming SRS 568/2; Friis, Vollesen & Abdisalam Hassan 4995.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
E Tanzania
Notes
Subsp. multiflora, with quite sessile inflorescences and glabrous calyx and corolla, occurs in E Kenya, E Tanzania, Mozambique, the Comoro Islands, and on the Aldabra Islands. One collector has indicated that P. multiflora subsp. pubescens can grow to a 25 m tall tree in Somalia, but this needs to be confirmed.
POLYSPHAERIA multiflora Verdc. subsp. pubescens [family RUBIACEAE]
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