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CANTHIUM glaucum 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
CANTHIUM glaucum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877);. type: S3, “Tula” R., Kirk s.n. (K lecto.). Fig. 57.
Information
Shrub, 1–5 m tall, armed with up to 2 cm long spines situated above very abbreviated short shoots. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, 1.5–6 x 1–3 cm, acute to obtuse at the apex, domatia present as small tufts of hairs, otherwise glabrous (in Somalia); stipules apiculate, 1–4 mm long, densely hairy within. Flowers (4–)5-merous, bisexual, in 2–8-flowered cymes; pedicels 3–10 mm long. Calyx-limb with triangular lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Corolla whitish; tube 1–1.25 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs at throat and pubescent immediately above; lobes 2–2.5 mm long, ± apiculate. Fruit pale red, edible, 9–12 mm long and wide, ± square in outline, with 2 stones.
Range
C1, 2; S2, 3 subsp. frangula (S. Moore) Bridson in southern tropical Africa.
Altitude range
10–225 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 392; Gillett & Hemming 24586; Friis, Alstrup & Michelsen 4660.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Notes
Garorshe, timir dur (Som.).The Somali plant is subsp. glaucum.
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
CANTHIUM glaucum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877);. type: S3, “Tula” R., Kirk s.n. (K lecto.). Fig. 57.
Information
Shrub, 1–5 m tall, armed with up to 2 cm long spines situated above very abbreviated short shoots. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, 1.5–6 x 1–3 cm, acute to obtuse at the apex, domatia present as small tufts of hairs, otherwise glabrous (in Somalia); stipules apiculate, 1–4 mm long, densely hairy within. Flowers (4–)5-merous, bisexual, in 2–8-flowered cymes; pedicels 3–10 mm long. Calyx-limb with triangular lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Corolla whitish; tube 1–1.25 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs at throat and pubescent immediately above; lobes 2–2.5 mm long, ± apiculate. Fruit pale red, edible, 9–12 mm long and wide, ± square in outline, with 2 stones.
Range
C1, 2; S2, 3 subsp. frangula (S. Moore) Bridson in southern tropical Africa.
Altitude range
10–225 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 392; Gillett & Hemming 24586; Friis, Alstrup & Michelsen 4660.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Notes
Garorshe, timir dur (Som.).The Somali plant is subsp. glaucum.
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
CANTHIUM glaucum Hiern [family RUBIACEAE], (1877);. type: S3, “Tula” R., Kirk s.n. (K lecto.). Fig. 57.
Information
Shrub, 1–5 m tall, armed with up to 2 cm long spines situated above very abbreviated short shoots. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, 1.5–6 x 1–3 cm, acute to obtuse at the apex, domatia present as small tufts of hairs, otherwise glabrous (in Somalia); stipules apiculate, 1–4 mm long, densely hairy within. Flowers (4–)5-merous, bisexual, in 2–8-flowered cymes; pedicels 3–10 mm long. Calyx-limb with triangular lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Corolla whitish; tube 1–1.25 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs at throat and pubescent immediately above; lobes 2–2.5 mm long, ± apiculate. Fruit pale red, edible, 9–12 mm long and wide, ± square in outline, with 2 stones.
Range
C1, 2; S2, 3 subsp. frangula (S. Moore) Bridson in southern tropical Africa.
Altitude range
10–225 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 392; Gillett & Hemming 24586; Friis, Alstrup & Michelsen 4660.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya
Notes
Garorshe, timir dur (Som.).The Somali plant is subsp. glaucum.
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