PSEUDOLITHOS cubiformis (Bally) Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]

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
PSEUDOLITHOS cubiformis (Bally) Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1965);. type: 42 km N of Hargeisa, “Aderiale” hill, Bally & Daniels 11785 (K holo.). Fig. 125G–I.
Lithocaulon cubiforme Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1959);. type: 42 km N of Hargeisa, “Aderiale” hill, Bally & Daniels 11785 (K holo.). Fig. 125G–I.
PSEUDOLITHOS cubiformis Horwood var. viridiflorus [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Nat. Cact. Succ. J. 30: 88 (1975);. type: 8 km NW of “Erigavo”, Lavranos & Horwood 10376 (K holo.).
Information
Stems solitary or rarely two or three together, square in section becoming more rounded in old plants, up to 70 mm tall and 50–60 mm wide; inflorescences at regular intervals along the angles of the stems, up to 30-flowered, on reduced side-branches; flowers opening simultaneously, on erect pedicels up to 12 mm long. Corolla light brown to greenish, with an inflated, cup-shaped tube; lobes erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate, 7–9 mm long, densely covered with stiff, pinkish or silvery hairs inside, with a few club-shaped, versatile hairs at the tip. Corona dark reddish-purple or greenish, cup-shaped, outer lobes 2-fid, inner lobes strap-shaped and closely incumbent on the anthers.
Range
N1–3; C1.
Altitude range
600–1900 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Tribe s.n.; Lavranos 6776; Lavranos, Carter & al. 24693.
PSEUDOLITHOS cubiformis (Bally) Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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