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MELOCARPUM robecchii (Engl.) Beier & Thulin [family ]

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
MELOCARPUM robecchii (Engl.) Beier & Thulin [family ], (2003);. type: ?Somalia, “Webi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 29 (FT lecto.). Zygophyllum robecchii Engl. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1897);. type: ?Somalia, “Webi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 29 (FT lecto.).
Information
Shrub or subshrub up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous. Leaves simple, orbicular to reniform, up to 20 x 25 mm; petiole 1–4 mm long; stipules minute. Flowers solitary; pedicels 4–10 mm long. Sepals ovate-elliptic, 5.5–6 mm long. Petals pink with obovate blade, 10–18 mm long. Filaments without scales. Ovary glabrous; style c. 3 mm long. Capsule up to c. 8 x 8 mm, 5-angled.
Range
N3; C2
Altitude range
0–150 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kazmi, Mohammed & Hussein 5505; Popov 1088; Sacco s.n.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia (Ogaden) Yemen Oman
Notes
Aftoxole (Som.). M. robecchii is, in Somalia, so far known only from near Boosaaso in N3 and from the Somalia/Ethiopia border area near Beled Weyne in C2.

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
MELOCARPUM robecchii (Engl.) Beier & Thulin [family ], (2003);. type: ?Somalia, “Webi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 29 (FT lecto.). Zygophyllum robecchii Engl. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1897);. type: ?Somalia, “Webi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 29 (FT lecto.).
Information
Shrub or subshrub up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous. Leaves simple, orbicular to reniform, up to 20 x 25 mm; petiole 1–4 mm long; stipules minute. Flowers solitary; pedicels 4–10 mm long. Sepals ovate-elliptic, 5.5–6 mm long. Petals pink with obovate blade, 10–18 mm long. Filaments without scales. Ovary glabrous; style c. 3 mm long. Capsule up to c. 8 x 8 mm, 5-angled.
Range
N3; C2
Altitude range
0–150 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kazmi, Mohammed & Hussein 5505; Popov 1088; Sacco s.n.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia (Ogaden) Yemen Oman
Notes
Aftoxole (Som.). M. robecchii is, in Somalia, so far known only from near Boosaaso in N3 and from the Somalia/Ethiopia border area near Beled Weyne in C2.

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
MELOCARPUM robecchii (Engl.) Beier & Thulin [family ], (2003);. type: ?Somalia, “Webi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 29 (FT lecto.). Zygophyllum robecchii Engl. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], (1897);. type: ?Somalia, “Webi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 29 (FT lecto.).
Information
Shrub or subshrub up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous. Leaves simple, orbicular to reniform, up to 20 x 25 mm; petiole 1–4 mm long; stipules minute. Flowers solitary; pedicels 4–10 mm long. Sepals ovate-elliptic, 5.5–6 mm long. Petals pink with obovate blade, 10–18 mm long. Filaments without scales. Ovary glabrous; style c. 3 mm long. Capsule up to c. 8 x 8 mm, 5-angled.
Range
N3; C2
Altitude range
0–150 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kazmi, Mohammed & Hussein 5505; Popov 1088; Sacco s.n.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia (Ogaden) Yemen Oman
Notes
Aftoxole (Som.). M. robecchii is, in Somalia, so far known only from near Boosaaso in N3 and from the Somalia/Ethiopia border area near Beled Weyne in C2.
MELOCARPUM robecchii (Engl.) Beier & Thulin [family ]
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