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POLYGALA senensis Klotzsch [family POLYGALACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POLYGALA senensis Klotzsch [family POLYGALACEAE], (1861).
POLYGALA multiflora Mattei [family POLYGALACEAE], (1908);. type: S3, between “Giumbo” and “Torda”, Macaluso 116 (PAL holo.).
POLYGALA matteiana Pampanini [family POLYGALACEAE], (1915);. type: S3, between “Giumbo” and “Torda”, Macaluso 116 (PAL holo.).
Information
Perennial or sometimes annual herb, 10–60 cm tall, densely crisped-pubescent. Leaves up to 30 x 10 mm, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate. Racemes lateral, 1.5–8 cm long, dense; pedicels 4–6 mm long; bracts persistent. Outer sepals free, c. 4 x 2.5 mm; wings ovate-suborbicular with short claws, 8–10 x 7–8 mm, pale pink to yellowish, pubescent. Petals purple, the upper ones almost as long as the c. 6 mm long keel. Capsule broadly oblong, c. 6 x 5 mm, emarginate at the apex, very narrowly winged, pubescent. Seeds c. 4 x 2 mm, with white hairs; caruncle with broad appendages almost as long as the seed.
Range
S1, 3 Kenya and southwards to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Altitude range
10–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4451; Deshmukh JESS 415; Senni 493.
Notes
Cuf. Enum.: 410 (1956), as well as, e. g., Paiva in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 45: 157 (1988) treat P. senensis in a broader sense than here, including P. obtusissima. The Somali plants here included in P. senensis differ from the typical ones in Mozambique in their longer (up to 8 cm) and more many-flowered racemes. Similar forms also occur in Kenya.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POLYGALA senensis Klotzsch [family POLYGALACEAE], (1861).
POLYGALA multiflora Mattei [family POLYGALACEAE], (1908);. type: S3, between “Giumbo” and “Torda”, Macaluso 116 (PAL holo.).
POLYGALA matteiana Pampanini [family POLYGALACEAE], (1915);. type: S3, between “Giumbo” and “Torda”, Macaluso 116 (PAL holo.).
Information
Perennial or sometimes annual herb, 10–60 cm tall, densely crisped-pubescent. Leaves up to 30 x 10 mm, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate. Racemes lateral, 1.5–8 cm long, dense; pedicels 4–6 mm long; bracts persistent. Outer sepals free, c. 4 x 2.5 mm; wings ovate-suborbicular with short claws, 8–10 x 7–8 mm, pale pink to yellowish, pubescent. Petals purple, the upper ones almost as long as the c. 6 mm long keel. Capsule broadly oblong, c. 6 x 5 mm, emarginate at the apex, very narrowly winged, pubescent. Seeds c. 4 x 2 mm, with white hairs; caruncle with broad appendages almost as long as the seed.
Range
S1, 3 Kenya and southwards to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Altitude range
10–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4451; Deshmukh JESS 415; Senni 493.
Notes
Cuf. Enum.: 410 (1956), as well as, e. g., Paiva in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 45: 157 (1988) treat P. senensis in a broader sense than here, including P. obtusissima. The Somali plants here included in P. senensis differ from the typical ones in Mozambique in their longer (up to 8 cm) and more many-flowered racemes. Similar forms also occur in Kenya.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POLYGALA senensis Klotzsch [family POLYGALACEAE], (1861).
POLYGALA multiflora Mattei [family POLYGALACEAE], (1908);. type: S3, between “Giumbo” and “Torda”, Macaluso 116 (PAL holo.).
POLYGALA matteiana Pampanini [family POLYGALACEAE], (1915);. type: S3, between “Giumbo” and “Torda”, Macaluso 116 (PAL holo.).
Information
Perennial or sometimes annual herb, 10–60 cm tall, densely crisped-pubescent. Leaves up to 30 x 10 mm, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate. Racemes lateral, 1.5–8 cm long, dense; pedicels 4–6 mm long; bracts persistent. Outer sepals free, c. 4 x 2.5 mm; wings ovate-suborbicular with short claws, 8–10 x 7–8 mm, pale pink to yellowish, pubescent. Petals purple, the upper ones almost as long as the c. 6 mm long keel. Capsule broadly oblong, c. 6 x 5 mm, emarginate at the apex, very narrowly winged, pubescent. Seeds c. 4 x 2 mm, with white hairs; caruncle with broad appendages almost as long as the seed.
Range
S1, 3 Kenya and southwards to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Altitude range
10–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4451; Deshmukh JESS 415; Senni 493.
Notes
Cuf. Enum.: 410 (1956), as well as, e. g., Paiva in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 45: 157 (1988) treat P. senensis in a broader sense than here, including P. obtusissima. The Somali plants here included in P. senensis differ from the typical ones in Mozambique in their longer (up to 8 cm) and more many-flowered racemes. Similar forms also occur in Kenya.
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