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BUDDLEJA polystachya Fresen. [family BUDDLEJACEAE]

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 M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
BUDDLEJA polystachya Fresen. [family BUDDLEJACEAE], (1838). Fig. 71.
Information
Shrub or tree, up to c. 5 m tall; branches, undersides of leaves and calyces tomentose with whitish hairs that sometimes turn rusty. Leaf-blades lanceolate to ovate or suborbicular, 0.8–17 x 0.4–6 cm, acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, serrate to entire; leafy stipules sometimes present; petiole 1–10 mm long. Flowers in raceme-like terminal inflorescences 3–25 x 0.8–2.5 cm. Calyx 2–3.5 mm long, shortly lobed. Corolla orange, 5–10 mm long, densely pubescent outside; lobes 1.5–3 mm long, rounded. Anthers subsessile. Pistil 2–4.5 mm long, pubescent. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5–5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
1300–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Glover & Gilliland 953; Gillett & Watson 23793; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Ahmed Osman 10204.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea Ethiopia Sudan Uganda Kenya Tanzania Yemen Saudi Arabia
Notes
Maret ad (Som.).The Somali plants generally have small and proportionally wide leaves and small flowers.

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 M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
BUDDLEJA polystachya Fresen. [family BUDDLEJACEAE], (1838). Fig. 71.
Information
Shrub or tree, up to c. 5 m tall; branches, undersides of leaves and calyces tomentose with whitish hairs that sometimes turn rusty. Leaf-blades lanceolate to ovate or suborbicular, 0.8–17 x 0.4–6 cm, acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, serrate to entire; leafy stipules sometimes present; petiole 1–10 mm long. Flowers in raceme-like terminal inflorescences 3–25 x 0.8–2.5 cm. Calyx 2–3.5 mm long, shortly lobed. Corolla orange, 5–10 mm long, densely pubescent outside; lobes 1.5–3 mm long, rounded. Anthers subsessile. Pistil 2–4.5 mm long, pubescent. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5–5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
1300–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Glover & Gilliland 953; Gillett & Watson 23793; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Ahmed Osman 10204.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea Ethiopia Sudan Uganda Kenya Tanzania Yemen Saudi Arabia
Notes
Maret ad (Som.).The Somali plants generally have small and proportionally wide leaves and small flowers.

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 M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
BUDDLEJA polystachya Fresen. [family BUDDLEJACEAE], (1838). Fig. 71.
Information
Shrub or tree, up to c. 5 m tall; branches, undersides of leaves and calyces tomentose with whitish hairs that sometimes turn rusty. Leaf-blades lanceolate to ovate or suborbicular, 0.8–17 x 0.4–6 cm, acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, serrate to entire; leafy stipules sometimes present; petiole 1–10 mm long. Flowers in raceme-like terminal inflorescences 3–25 x 0.8–2.5 cm. Calyx 2–3.5 mm long, shortly lobed. Corolla orange, 5–10 mm long, densely pubescent outside; lobes 1.5–3 mm long, rounded. Anthers subsessile. Pistil 2–4.5 mm long, pubescent. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5–5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3
Altitude range
1300–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Glover & Gilliland 953; Gillett & Watson 23793; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Ahmed Osman 10204.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea Ethiopia Sudan Uganda Kenya Tanzania Yemen Saudi Arabia
Notes
Maret ad (Som.).The Somali plants generally have small and proportionally wide leaves and small flowers.
BUDDLEJA polystachya Fresen. [family BUDDLEJACEAE]
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