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ABELMOSCHUS ficulneus (L.) Wight & Arn. [family MALVACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
ABELMOSCHUS ficulneus (L.) Wight & Arn. [family MALVACEAE], (1834);
Hibiscus ficulneus L. [family MALVACEAE], (1753). Fig. 31 G–K. [type as above]
Information
Stout annual herb up to 1.5 m tall; young stems with short simple hairs. Leaf-blades suborbicular in outline, up to 15 x 15 cm, deeply 3–5-lobed, rough on both sides, with stellate hairs beneath; petiole up to 20 cm long. Flowers in a raceme or lowermost ones axillary. Epicalyx bracts 5–6, linear to lanceolate, only present on young buds. Calyx bottle-shaped in bud, c. 2 cm long, rough-tomentose. Petals white turning pink and often with dark purple base, 2–3.5 cm long. Capsule ellipsoid, 3–4 cm long, puberulous to pubescent; seeds c. 3 mm long, subglobose, with concentric lines and crisped hairs.
Range
S2, 3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and westwards to NE Nigeria, S Tanzania, N Mozambique, E Zambia, Madagascar, and in S Asia to N Australia.
Altitude range
up to c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bigi 125; Bonfiglioli 1.
Notes
Baamiya (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
ABELMOSCHUS ficulneus (L.) Wight & Arn. [family MALVACEAE], (1834);
Hibiscus ficulneus L. [family MALVACEAE], (1753). Fig. 31 G–K. [type as above]
Information
Stout annual herb up to 1.5 m tall; young stems with short simple hairs. Leaf-blades suborbicular in outline, up to 15 x 15 cm, deeply 3–5-lobed, rough on both sides, with stellate hairs beneath; petiole up to 20 cm long. Flowers in a raceme or lowermost ones axillary. Epicalyx bracts 5–6, linear to lanceolate, only present on young buds. Calyx bottle-shaped in bud, c. 2 cm long, rough-tomentose. Petals white turning pink and often with dark purple base, 2–3.5 cm long. Capsule ellipsoid, 3–4 cm long, puberulous to pubescent; seeds c. 3 mm long, subglobose, with concentric lines and crisped hairs.
Range
S2, 3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and westwards to NE Nigeria, S Tanzania, N Mozambique, E Zambia, Madagascar, and in S Asia to N Australia.
Altitude range
up to c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bigi 125; Bonfiglioli 1.
Notes
Baamiya (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
ABELMOSCHUS ficulneus (L.) Wight & Arn. [family MALVACEAE], (1834);
Hibiscus ficulneus L. [family MALVACEAE], (1753). Fig. 31 G–K. [type as above]
Information
Stout annual herb up to 1.5 m tall; young stems with short simple hairs. Leaf-blades suborbicular in outline, up to 15 x 15 cm, deeply 3–5-lobed, rough on both sides, with stellate hairs beneath; petiole up to 20 cm long. Flowers in a raceme or lowermost ones axillary. Epicalyx bracts 5–6, linear to lanceolate, only present on young buds. Calyx bottle-shaped in bud, c. 2 cm long, rough-tomentose. Petals white turning pink and often with dark purple base, 2–3.5 cm long. Capsule ellipsoid, 3–4 cm long, puberulous to pubescent; seeds c. 3 mm long, subglobose, with concentric lines and crisped hairs.
Range
S2, 3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and westwards to NE Nigeria, S Tanzania, N Mozambique, E Zambia, Madagascar, and in S Asia to N Australia.
Altitude range
up to c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bigi 125; Bonfiglioli 1.
Notes
Baamiya (Som.).
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