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PSEUDOLITHOS migiurtinus (Chiov.) Bally [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
PSEUDOLITHOS migiurtinus (Chiov.) Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1975);. type: “Al Madu” Range, “Baditir”, Bally 10924 (K holo.). Fig. 125D–F. Whitesloanea migiurtina Chiov. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1937);. type: “Al Madu” Range, “Baditir”, Bally 10924 (K holo.). Fig. 125D–F. Lithocaulon sphaericum Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1959);. type: “Al Madu” Range, “Baditir”, Bally 10924 (K holo.). Fig. 125D–F. Pseudolithos sphaericus (Bally) Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1965);. type: “Al Madu” Range, “Baditir”, Bally 10924 (K holo.). Fig. 125D–F.
Information
Stems to 120 mm tall and 50–60 mm wide, obscurely 4-angled, almost circular in section, with rounded tips; inflorescences at regular intervals along the angles of the stems, 8–10-flowered, on reduced side-branches frequently developing into globose side-shoots; flowers opening simultaneously, on thick pedicels 4–10 mm long. Corolla-tube cup-shaped to almost globose, 3–4 mm long, pale green; lobes dark brown, spreading, triangular, c. 3 mm long, with hair-like papillae inside, with a tuft of versatile hairs at the tip. Corona dark brown, cup-shaped; outer lobes minutely 2–3-toothed; inner lobes spoon-shaped, incumbent on the anthers.
Range
N2, 3; C1 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
100–1200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Lavranos 6688; Lavranos & Horwood 10158; Lavranos, Carter & al. 23375.
Notes
The holotype of Whitesloanea migiurtina, Puccioni & Stefanini s.n. (FT) from “Gid Gudud” near the mouth of the Nogal valley in N3, is lost and Bruyns (1990) selected the holotype of Lithocaulon sphaericum as neotype.
PSEUDOLITHOS migiurtinus (Chiov.) Bally [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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