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POSKEA africana Vatke [family GLOBULARIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by C. Nepi (Globularia) and M. Thulin (Poskea) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POSKEA africana Vatke [family GLOBULARIACEAE], (1882);. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, “Damalle”, Hildebrandt 848 (BM K iso.). Fig. 203. Plate 3F.
POSKEA newbouldii Braggio [family GLOBULARIACEAE], (1970);. type: N3, “Toh”, 11º23´N, 49º50´E, Newbould 1049 (K holo.).
Information
Slender shrub or subshrub, 0.3–1 m tall; stems with ± spreading eglandular hairs and usually also long glandular hairs. Leaves ± broadly elliptic to ovate, obovate or suborbicular, up to 14 mm long including up to 3 mm long petiole, up to 8.5 mm wide, with indumentum of ± spreading hairs on both surfaces. Spikes c. 2.5–5 x 0.7–0.8 cm; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1–1.5 mm long. Calyx 2–2.5 mm long with 0.8–1 mm long teeth. Corolla white, 4–5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1000–1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 6051.
Notes
Kabagoes (Som.). The type of P. newbouldii is a small and unusually densely glandular specimen of P. africana.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by C. Nepi (Globularia) and M. Thulin (Poskea) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POSKEA africana Vatke [family GLOBULARIACEAE], (1882);. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, “Damalle”, Hildebrandt 848 (BM K iso.). Fig. 203. Plate 3F.
POSKEA newbouldii Braggio [family GLOBULARIACEAE], (1970);. type: N3, “Toh”, 11º23´N, 49º50´E, Newbould 1049 (K holo.).
Information
Slender shrub or subshrub, 0.3–1 m tall; stems with ± spreading eglandular hairs and usually also long glandular hairs. Leaves ± broadly elliptic to ovate, obovate or suborbicular, up to 14 mm long including up to 3 mm long petiole, up to 8.5 mm wide, with indumentum of ± spreading hairs on both surfaces. Spikes c. 2.5–5 x 0.7–0.8 cm; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1–1.5 mm long. Calyx 2–2.5 mm long with 0.8–1 mm long teeth. Corolla white, 4–5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1000–1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 6051.
Notes
Kabagoes (Som.). The type of P. newbouldii is a small and unusually densely glandular specimen of P. africana.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by C. Nepi (Globularia) and M. Thulin (Poskea) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
POSKEA africana Vatke [family GLOBULARIACEAE], (1882);. type: N2, “Ahl” Mts, “Damalle”, Hildebrandt 848 (BM K iso.). Fig. 203. Plate 3F.
POSKEA newbouldii Braggio [family GLOBULARIACEAE], (1970);. type: N3, “Toh”, 11º23´N, 49º50´E, Newbould 1049 (K holo.).
Information
Slender shrub or subshrub, 0.3–1 m tall; stems with ± spreading eglandular hairs and usually also long glandular hairs. Leaves ± broadly elliptic to ovate, obovate or suborbicular, up to 14 mm long including up to 3 mm long petiole, up to 8.5 mm wide, with indumentum of ± spreading hairs on both surfaces. Spikes c. 2.5–5 x 0.7–0.8 cm; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1–1.5 mm long. Calyx 2–2.5 mm long with 0.8–1 mm long teeth. Corolla white, 4–5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1000–1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 6051.
Notes
Kabagoes (Som.). The type of P. newbouldii is a small and unusually densely glandular specimen of P. africana.
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