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CANTHIUM pseudoverticillatum S. Moore [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 pseudoverticillatum S. Moore [family RUBIACEAE], (1905); Afrocanthium pseudoverticillatum (S. Moore) Lantz [family ], (2004). [type as above]
Information
Shrub or small tree, unarmed. Leaf-blades elliptic to broadly elliptic or ovate 2.5–7.5 x 1–5 cm, acute to obtuse or rounded at the apex, glabrous, or pubescent at least beneath; young stipules with subulate tip, hairy within. Flowers (4–)5-merous, bisexual, in 1–20-flowered cymes; pedicels 1–5 mm long. Calyx-limb a truncate rim or sometimes dentate or with up to 1 mm long lobes. Corolla yellow or greenish; tube 1 mm long, densely pubescent at throat; lobes 1.5–2.25 mm long, acute. Fruit c. 10 x 9 mm, with 2 stones.
CANTHIUM pseudoverticillatum S. Moore [family RUBIACEAE]
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