EPHIPPIOCARPA humilis (Chiov.) Boiteau [family APOCYNACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
EPHIPPIOCARPA humilis (Chiov.) Boiteau [family APOCYNACEAE], (1976);. type: S2, "Damero", between Mogadishu and "Balad", Suckert 16 (FT holo.). Fig. 81.
Conopharyngia humilis Chiov. [family APOCYNACEAE], (1935);. type: S2, "Damero", between Mogadishu and "Balad", Suckert 16 (FT holo.). Fig. 81.
Information
Shrub, 1–2.5 m tall; branches pale brown or whitish. Leaves yellowish-green; blades narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 3–6 x 0.8–2.2 cm, acute to shortly and bluntly acuminate at the apex; petiole 2–5 mm long. Flowers weakly scented, in solitary erect few-flowered cymes; peduncle up to 3 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Calyx 4–7 mm long with lanceolate-oblong to ovate ± unequal lobes reflexed in fruit. Corolla white; tube c. 15 mm long; lobes 15–17 mm long, overlapping to the left in bud, broadly rounded at the apex. Anthers c. 3–3.2 mm long, acute. Style c. 8 mm long. Fruit with the 2 rounded carpels united for almost all their length, c. 1–1.2 cm high and 2–3 cm wide.
Range
S2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
100–150 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 6335, 6399; Fries, Vollesen & Abdisalam Hassan 5060.
Notes
Beentje (op. cit.) treated this as conspecific with E. orientalis (S. Moore) Markgr. under the name Callichilia orientalis S. Moore. However, E. humilis differs from E. orientalis in eastern Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa (Natal) by its inflorescences with shorter peduncle (up to 3 mm versus up to 23 mm long) and shorter pedicels (2–5 mm versus 7–19 mm long), and by its almost entirely syncarpous fruit that is much broader than long (not about as broad as long).
EPHIPPIOCARPA humilis (Chiov.) Boiteau [family APOCYNACEAE]
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