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AMMANNIA baccifera L. [family LYTHRACEAE]
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. G. Gilbert & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AMMANNIA baccifera L. [family LYTHRACEAE], (1753).
Information
Annual herb to 80 cm high, glabrous throughout. Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, (7–)30–120 x (1.5–)5–22 mm, attenuate-cuneate at the base, acute to subobtuse at the tip. Cymes usually many-flowered; peduncles 1(–2) mm long. Hypanthium campanulate, 1–1.2 mm long including shortly triangular sepals, sinuse-horns absent or minute. Petals absent (?always). Stamens 4. Style 0.1–0.3 mm long. Capsule globose, 1–2 mm in diam., slightly fleshy, exserted by a quarter to a half from hypanthium. Seeds as in A. auriculata.
Range
N1; C2; S3 tropical Africa, Asia, Australia.
Altitude range
50–960 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4671; Kuchar 17497; Puccioni & Stefanini 120.
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. G. Gilbert & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AMMANNIA baccifera L. [family LYTHRACEAE], (1753).
Information
Annual herb to 80 cm high, glabrous throughout. Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, (7–)30–120 x (1.5–)5–22 mm, attenuate-cuneate at the base, acute to subobtuse at the tip. Cymes usually many-flowered; peduncles 1(–2) mm long. Hypanthium campanulate, 1–1.2 mm long including shortly triangular sepals, sinuse-horns absent or minute. Petals absent (?always). Stamens 4. Style 0.1–0.3 mm long. Capsule globose, 1–2 mm in diam., slightly fleshy, exserted by a quarter to a half from hypanthium. Seeds as in A. auriculata.
Range
N1; C2; S3 tropical Africa, Asia, Australia.
Altitude range
50–960 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4671; Kuchar 17497; Puccioni & Stefanini 120.
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. G. Gilbert & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AMMANNIA baccifera L. [family LYTHRACEAE], (1753).
Information
Annual herb to 80 cm high, glabrous throughout. Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, (7–)30–120 x (1.5–)5–22 mm, attenuate-cuneate at the base, acute to subobtuse at the tip. Cymes usually many-flowered; peduncles 1(–2) mm long. Hypanthium campanulate, 1–1.2 mm long including shortly triangular sepals, sinuse-horns absent or minute. Petals absent (?always). Stamens 4. Style 0.1–0.3 mm long. Capsule globose, 1–2 mm in diam., slightly fleshy, exserted by a quarter to a half from hypanthium. Seeds as in A. auriculata.
Range
N1; C2; S3 tropical Africa, Asia, Australia.
Altitude range
50–960 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4671; Kuchar 17497; Puccioni & Stefanini 120.
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