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LAMPROTHAMNUS zanguebaricus Hiern [family RUBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LAMPROTHAMNUS zanguebaricus Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877). Fig. 53.
Information
Evergreen shrub or tree up to 9 m tall; bark fissured or corrugated. Leaf-blades oblong to oblong-ovate, 2–16 x 1.2–6.5 cm, rounded to subacute at the apex, slightly to distinctly cordate at the base, glabrous, glossy, rather coriaceous, with distinctly raised venation and often grey when dry; petiole up to 2 mm long; stipules 3–8 mm long, with raised median line when dry. Flowers sweetly scented. Calyx-tube and limb-tube together 3–5 mm long; lobes up to 2 mm long, ciliolate. Corolla white; tube 0.5–1.2 cm long; lobes oblong-elliptic, 0.6–1.1 cm long. Anthers 6–7 mm long. Fruit 6–11 mm long, green becoming red. Seeds ovoid, c. 5.5 mm long.
Range
S3
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Scassellati 5; Paoli 150; Sacco, Sappa & Ariello 81.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Tanzania
Notes
Ghedud (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LAMPROTHAMNUS zanguebaricus Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877). Fig. 53.
Information
Evergreen shrub or tree up to 9 m tall; bark fissured or corrugated. Leaf-blades oblong to oblong-ovate, 2–16 x 1.2–6.5 cm, rounded to subacute at the apex, slightly to distinctly cordate at the base, glabrous, glossy, rather coriaceous, with distinctly raised venation and often grey when dry; petiole up to 2 mm long; stipules 3–8 mm long, with raised median line when dry. Flowers sweetly scented. Calyx-tube and limb-tube together 3–5 mm long; lobes up to 2 mm long, ciliolate. Corolla white; tube 0.5–1.2 cm long; lobes oblong-elliptic, 0.6–1.1 cm long. Anthers 6–7 mm long. Fruit 6–11 mm long, green becoming red. Seeds ovoid, c. 5.5 mm long.
Range
S3
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Scassellati 5; Paoli 150; Sacco, Sappa & Ariello 81.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Tanzania
Notes
Ghedud (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LAMPROTHAMNUS zanguebaricus Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877). Fig. 53.
Information
Evergreen shrub or tree up to 9 m tall; bark fissured or corrugated. Leaf-blades oblong to oblong-ovate, 2–16 x 1.2–6.5 cm, rounded to subacute at the apex, slightly to distinctly cordate at the base, glabrous, glossy, rather coriaceous, with distinctly raised venation and often grey when dry; petiole up to 2 mm long; stipules 3–8 mm long, with raised median line when dry. Flowers sweetly scented. Calyx-tube and limb-tube together 3–5 mm long; lobes up to 2 mm long, ciliolate. Corolla white; tube 0.5–1.2 cm long; lobes oblong-elliptic, 0.6–1.1 cm long. Anthers 6–7 mm long. Fruit 6–11 mm long, green becoming red. Seeds ovoid, c. 5.5 mm long.
Range
S3
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Scassellati 5; Paoli 150; Sacco, Sappa & Ariello 81.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Tanzania
Notes
Ghedud (Som.).
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