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ZANTHOXYLUM holtzianum (Engl.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE]

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
ZANTHOXYLUM holtzianum (Engl.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE], (1975). Fagara somalensis Chiov. [family RUTACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, "Baddada", Senni 223 (FT holo., K iso.).
Information
Shrub or small tree; trunk with corky bosses; branchlets usually glabrous, usually armed with straight or slightly recurved prickles. Leaves 7–9-foliolate; rhachis unarmed or rarely with 1–2 prickles; leaflets oblong-elliptic to ovate, 6–15 x 2.5–6.5 cm, obtuse to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, with crenulate to minutely serrulate margins, the lateral leaflets with 1.5–4 mm long petiolules. Panicles terminal, ± much-branched, with mostly clustered 4-merous flowers on pedicels 1–4 mm long or more. Petals white, 1.5–3 mm long. Female flowers with solitary carpel. Follicle on short stipe, globose, 4–6 mm in diam.
Range
S3
Altitude range
less than 50 m
Distribution (external)
Kenya Tanzania Mozambique
Notes
Fil-fil awliyaad (Som.). The type of Fagara somalensis is the only collection known from Somalia. It belongs to subsp. holtziana. Subsp. tenuipedicellata Kokwaro, sometimes regarded as a distinct species, is confined to eastern Tanzania.

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
ZANTHOXYLUM holtzianum (Engl.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE], (1975). Fagara somalensis Chiov. [family RUTACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, "Baddada", Senni 223 (FT holo., K iso.).
Information
Shrub or small tree; trunk with corky bosses; branchlets usually glabrous, usually armed with straight or slightly recurved prickles. Leaves 7–9-foliolate; rhachis unarmed or rarely with 1–2 prickles; leaflets oblong-elliptic to ovate, 6–15 x 2.5–6.5 cm, obtuse to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, with crenulate to minutely serrulate margins, the lateral leaflets with 1.5–4 mm long petiolules. Panicles terminal, ± much-branched, with mostly clustered 4-merous flowers on pedicels 1–4 mm long or more. Petals white, 1.5–3 mm long. Female flowers with solitary carpel. Follicle on short stipe, globose, 4–6 mm in diam.
Range
S3
Altitude range
less than 50 m
Distribution (external)
Kenya Tanzania Mozambique
Notes
Fil-fil awliyaad (Som.). The type of Fagara somalensis is the only collection known from Somalia. It belongs to subsp. holtziana. Subsp. tenuipedicellata Kokwaro, sometimes regarded as a distinct species, is confined to eastern Tanzania.

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
ZANTHOXYLUM holtzianum (Engl.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE], (1975). Fagara somalensis Chiov. [family RUTACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, "Baddada", Senni 223 (FT holo., K iso.).
Information
Shrub or small tree; trunk with corky bosses; branchlets usually glabrous, usually armed with straight or slightly recurved prickles. Leaves 7–9-foliolate; rhachis unarmed or rarely with 1–2 prickles; leaflets oblong-elliptic to ovate, 6–15 x 2.5–6.5 cm, obtuse to shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, with crenulate to minutely serrulate margins, the lateral leaflets with 1.5–4 mm long petiolules. Panicles terminal, ± much-branched, with mostly clustered 4-merous flowers on pedicels 1–4 mm long or more. Petals white, 1.5–3 mm long. Female flowers with solitary carpel. Follicle on short stipe, globose, 4–6 mm in diam.
Range
S3
Altitude range
less than 50 m
Distribution (external)
Kenya Tanzania Mozambique
Notes
Fil-fil awliyaad (Som.). The type of Fagara somalensis is the only collection known from Somalia. It belongs to subsp. holtziana. Subsp. tenuipedicellata Kokwaro, sometimes regarded as a distinct species, is confined to eastern Tanzania.
ZANTHOXYLUM holtzianum (Engl.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE]
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