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STRIGA forbesii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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 P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STRIGA forbesii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1836). Fig. 197.
Information
Annual, up to 70 cm tall, unbranched or with 2–4 branches below the middle, scabrous to hispid; stem square, furrowed. Leaves 15–40(–90) x 4–12 mm, opposite, lanceolate, coarsely toothed, 3–5-veined, usually shorter than internodes. Lower bracts 20–50(–90) x 3–12 mm, leaf-like, longer than calyx, upper bracts shorter than calyx. Flowers opposite in open racemes, raceme shorter than vegetative stem. Calyx 10–15-ribbed, 9–14(–20) mm long; tube 4–6 mm long; lobes 5, equal, broadly lanceolate, 5–9(–14) mm long, longer than tube. Corolla salmon-pink; tube 20–25 mm long, bent and expanded distally above calyx, densely glandular-pubescent; lobes of lower lip 6–9 x 3–6 mm, obovate, spreading; upper lip 3–6 x 6–9 mm, emarginate.
Range
C2; S2, 3 widespread in tropical Africa.
Altitude range
30–120 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Musselman 7086 (ODU); Kuchar 17495.
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 P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STRIGA forbesii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1836). Fig. 197.
Information
Annual, up to 70 cm tall, unbranched or with 2–4 branches below the middle, scabrous to hispid; stem square, furrowed. Leaves 15–40(–90) x 4–12 mm, opposite, lanceolate, coarsely toothed, 3–5-veined, usually shorter than internodes. Lower bracts 20–50(–90) x 3–12 mm, leaf-like, longer than calyx, upper bracts shorter than calyx. Flowers opposite in open racemes, raceme shorter than vegetative stem. Calyx 10–15-ribbed, 9–14(–20) mm long; tube 4–6 mm long; lobes 5, equal, broadly lanceolate, 5–9(–14) mm long, longer than tube. Corolla salmon-pink; tube 20–25 mm long, bent and expanded distally above calyx, densely glandular-pubescent; lobes of lower lip 6–9 x 3–6 mm, obovate, spreading; upper lip 3–6 x 6–9 mm, emarginate.
Range
C2; S2, 3 widespread in tropical Africa.
Altitude range
30–120 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Musselman 7086 (ODU); Kuchar 17495.
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 P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STRIGA forbesii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1836). Fig. 197.
Information
Annual, up to 70 cm tall, unbranched or with 2–4 branches below the middle, scabrous to hispid; stem square, furrowed. Leaves 15–40(–90) x 4–12 mm, opposite, lanceolate, coarsely toothed, 3–5-veined, usually shorter than internodes. Lower bracts 20–50(–90) x 3–12 mm, leaf-like, longer than calyx, upper bracts shorter than calyx. Flowers opposite in open racemes, raceme shorter than vegetative stem. Calyx 10–15-ribbed, 9–14(–20) mm long; tube 4–6 mm long; lobes 5, equal, broadly lanceolate, 5–9(–14) mm long, longer than tube. Corolla salmon-pink; tube 20–25 mm long, bent and expanded distally above calyx, densely glandular-pubescent; lobes of lower lip 6–9 x 3–6 mm, obovate, spreading; upper lip 3–6 x 6–9 mm, emarginate.
Range
C2; S2, 3 widespread in tropical Africa.
Altitude range
30–120 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Musselman 7086 (ODU); Kuchar 17495.
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