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CALCIPHILA gillettii Meve & Liede [family ]

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. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CALCIPHILA gillettii Meve & Liede [family ], (2006);. type: N3, c.10°37´N, 48°11´S, Gillett & Watson 23805 (K holo.).
Information
Plants erect, richly branched, up to 40 cm high, densely pubescent. Leaves caducous, sessile; blades obovate, 1–2 x 1 mm. Inflorescences sessile, 3–10-flowered; pedicels c. 0.5 mm long. Corolla cup-shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, purplish, glabrous; lobes oblong. Corona cup-shaped, white, c. 0.9–1 mm long, exceeding the gynostegium and partly obscuring it, tube more than 3/4 of corona length; staminal lobes ovate, 2-fid with rounded apices, interstaminal lobes rectangular, emarginate. Gynostegium c. 0.5 x 0.8 mm, on top of c. 0.3 mm long stipe; anther wings c. 0.35 mm long, extending along the whole length of the anther; connective appendages c. 0.15 x 0.12 mm, triangular, narrower than the anthers; stigmatic head ca. 0.4 x 0.5 mm, tabular. Follicles c. 13–18 x 2.5 mm, pubescent.
Range
N3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1300–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & al. 10122.

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. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CALCIPHILA gillettii Meve & Liede [family ], (2006);. type: N3, c.10°37´N, 48°11´S, Gillett & Watson 23805 (K holo.).
Information
Plants erect, richly branched, up to 40 cm high, densely pubescent. Leaves caducous, sessile; blades obovate, 1–2 x 1 mm. Inflorescences sessile, 3–10-flowered; pedicels c. 0.5 mm long. Corolla cup-shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, purplish, glabrous; lobes oblong. Corona cup-shaped, white, c. 0.9–1 mm long, exceeding the gynostegium and partly obscuring it, tube more than 3/4 of corona length; staminal lobes ovate, 2-fid with rounded apices, interstaminal lobes rectangular, emarginate. Gynostegium c. 0.5 x 0.8 mm, on top of c. 0.3 mm long stipe; anther wings c. 0.35 mm long, extending along the whole length of the anther; connective appendages c. 0.15 x 0.12 mm, triangular, narrower than the anthers; stigmatic head ca. 0.4 x 0.5 mm, tabular. Follicles c. 13–18 x 2.5 mm, pubescent.
Range
N3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1300–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & al. 10122.

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. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CALCIPHILA gillettii Meve & Liede [family ], (2006);. type: N3, c.10°37´N, 48°11´S, Gillett & Watson 23805 (K holo.).
Information
Plants erect, richly branched, up to 40 cm high, densely pubescent. Leaves caducous, sessile; blades obovate, 1–2 x 1 mm. Inflorescences sessile, 3–10-flowered; pedicels c. 0.5 mm long. Corolla cup-shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, purplish, glabrous; lobes oblong. Corona cup-shaped, white, c. 0.9–1 mm long, exceeding the gynostegium and partly obscuring it, tube more than 3/4 of corona length; staminal lobes ovate, 2-fid with rounded apices, interstaminal lobes rectangular, emarginate. Gynostegium c. 0.5 x 0.8 mm, on top of c. 0.3 mm long stipe; anther wings c. 0.35 mm long, extending along the whole length of the anther; connective appendages c. 0.15 x 0.12 mm, triangular, narrower than the anthers; stigmatic head ca. 0.4 x 0.5 mm, tabular. Follicles c. 13–18 x 2.5 mm, pubescent.
Range
N3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1300–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & al. 10122.
CALCIPHILA gillettii Meve & Liede [family ]
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