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FORSSKAOLEA tenacissima L. [family URTICACEAE]
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 I. Friis [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
FORSSKAOLEA tenacissima L. [family URTICACEAE], (1764). Fig. 69 H–J.
Information
Annual or probably mostly perennial herb with branching annual stems from a woody rootstock, up to 40 cm tall; branches hispid with spiny or hooked hairs and a softer tomentum in between. Leaves: stipules lanceolate, up to c. 2 mm long; petiole not clearly defined, c. 0.3–1 cm long; blade obovate or rhomboid, 1–3 x 0.8–2 cm, hispid to glabrescent above, white tomentose below, cystoliths usually not visible, base cuneate, margin entire basally, serrate or crenate in the upper half, apex rounded or acute. Inflorescences two or more together in the leaf axils; involucral bracts (4–)5–6(–7), lanceolate, up to 0.5 x 0.15 cm, densely covered by long woolly hairs. Male flowers up to 10, club-shaped in bud. Female flowers up to c. 5. Achene ovoid, brownish.
Range
N2, 3 North Africa
Altitude range
c. 300–500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 23140; Scortecci s.n.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Egypt
S Spain
Arabian Peninsula
S Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
NW India
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 I. Friis [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
FORSSKAOLEA tenacissima L. [family URTICACEAE], (1764). Fig. 69 H–J.
Information
Annual or probably mostly perennial herb with branching annual stems from a woody rootstock, up to 40 cm tall; branches hispid with spiny or hooked hairs and a softer tomentum in between. Leaves: stipules lanceolate, up to c. 2 mm long; petiole not clearly defined, c. 0.3–1 cm long; blade obovate or rhomboid, 1–3 x 0.8–2 cm, hispid to glabrescent above, white tomentose below, cystoliths usually not visible, base cuneate, margin entire basally, serrate or crenate in the upper half, apex rounded or acute. Inflorescences two or more together in the leaf axils; involucral bracts (4–)5–6(–7), lanceolate, up to 0.5 x 0.15 cm, densely covered by long woolly hairs. Male flowers up to 10, club-shaped in bud. Female flowers up to c. 5. Achene ovoid, brownish.
Range
N2, 3 North Africa
Altitude range
c. 300–500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 23140; Scortecci s.n.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Egypt
S Spain
Arabian Peninsula
S Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
NW India
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 I. Friis [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
FORSSKAOLEA tenacissima L. [family URTICACEAE], (1764). Fig. 69 H–J.
Information
Annual or probably mostly perennial herb with branching annual stems from a woody rootstock, up to 40 cm tall; branches hispid with spiny or hooked hairs and a softer tomentum in between. Leaves: stipules lanceolate, up to c. 2 mm long; petiole not clearly defined, c. 0.3–1 cm long; blade obovate or rhomboid, 1–3 x 0.8–2 cm, hispid to glabrescent above, white tomentose below, cystoliths usually not visible, base cuneate, margin entire basally, serrate or crenate in the upper half, apex rounded or acute. Inflorescences two or more together in the leaf axils; involucral bracts (4–)5–6(–7), lanceolate, up to 0.5 x 0.15 cm, densely covered by long woolly hairs. Male flowers up to 10, club-shaped in bud. Female flowers up to c. 5. Achene ovoid, brownish.
Range
N2, 3 North Africa
Altitude range
c. 300–500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 23140; Scortecci s.n.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Egypt
S Spain
Arabian Peninsula
S Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
NW India
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