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ODONTANTHERA radians (Forssk.) D.V. Field [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]

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
ODONTANTHERA radians (Forssk.) D.V. Field [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1982); Steinheilia radians (Forssk.) Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1838). Fig. 114. [type as above]
Information
Simple or branched herb to c. 20 cm. Leaves petiolate; petiole 10–35 mm long; blade 2–5 cm across, suborbicular to reniform but generally with a short apiculus at the apex. Inflorescences with up to 15 flowers; peduncles 2–5 cm long; pedicels variable in length in a single inflorescence, 0.5–2 cm long. Corolla yellow, sometimes tinged brownish; tube 4–5 mm long, urceolate to subcylindrical; lobes c. 2 x 0.5 mm, oblong, glabrous. Corona as tall as gynostegium, free portion c. 1 mm long, entirely enclosed within the corolla-tube. Gynostegium 3–3.5 mm long. Stigmatic head forming a low cone.
Range
N1, 3
Altitude range
0–50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 7216; Gillett 4755; Thulin & Warfa 5937.
Distribution (external)
Saudi Arabia Yemen
ODONTANTHERA radians (Forssk.) D.V. Field [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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