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STYLOCHAETON borumensis N.E. Br. [family ARACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by S. Ittenbach & W. Lobin (Amorphophallus) and M. Thulin (Arisaema, Pistia, Stylochaeton) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STYLOCHAETON borumensis N.E. Br. [family ARACEAE], (1901). Plate 1 C.
Information
Rhizome 0.5–1.5 cm thick. Leaves 2 to several, glabrous; petiole 5–40 cm long, lower part mottled with purple; basal sheath up to half total petiole-length; blade very variable in shape, up to 30 x 12 cm, sagittate to hastate at the base, often lobed with midlobe lanceolate to linear, 10–30 x 0.5–6 cm, acute, side-lobes usually shorter, 0.3–3 cm wide. Inflorescence usually present as leaves emerge, at or near ground level; peduncle 1–6 cm long. Spathe greenish, purplish or brownish, 3.5–15 x 0.5–1.5 cm, cylindric; apex erect, acuminate, with oblique opening. Spadix hidden or slightly protruding from the mouth of the spathe; male part separated from 0.4–1 cm long female part by a 0.2–1.2 cm wide sterile zone. Male flowers with 2–4 stamens, filaments ± thickened towards the apex; perianth with unlobed to dentate margin. Female flowers 5–10 in 1–2 whorls; ovules c. 20. Seeds several, c. 2.5–3.5 mm long, sulcate.
Range
C1; S1, 2 East Africa and southwards to Mozambique.
Altitude range
40–450 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7544, 7680; Thulin 6328 A.
Notes
As treated here this is a highly variable taxon in Somalia and more than one species may be involved.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by S. Ittenbach & W. Lobin (Amorphophallus) and M. Thulin (Arisaema, Pistia, Stylochaeton) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STYLOCHAETON borumensis N.E. Br. [family ARACEAE], (1901). Plate 1 C.
Information
Rhizome 0.5–1.5 cm thick. Leaves 2 to several, glabrous; petiole 5–40 cm long, lower part mottled with purple; basal sheath up to half total petiole-length; blade very variable in shape, up to 30 x 12 cm, sagittate to hastate at the base, often lobed with midlobe lanceolate to linear, 10–30 x 0.5–6 cm, acute, side-lobes usually shorter, 0.3–3 cm wide. Inflorescence usually present as leaves emerge, at or near ground level; peduncle 1–6 cm long. Spathe greenish, purplish or brownish, 3.5–15 x 0.5–1.5 cm, cylindric; apex erect, acuminate, with oblique opening. Spadix hidden or slightly protruding from the mouth of the spathe; male part separated from 0.4–1 cm long female part by a 0.2–1.2 cm wide sterile zone. Male flowers with 2–4 stamens, filaments ± thickened towards the apex; perianth with unlobed to dentate margin. Female flowers 5–10 in 1–2 whorls; ovules c. 20. Seeds several, c. 2.5–3.5 mm long, sulcate.
Range
C1; S1, 2 East Africa and southwards to Mozambique.
Altitude range
40–450 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7544, 7680; Thulin 6328 A.
Notes
As treated here this is a highly variable taxon in Somalia and more than one species may be involved.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by S. Ittenbach & W. Lobin (Amorphophallus) and M. Thulin (Arisaema, Pistia, Stylochaeton) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
STYLOCHAETON borumensis N.E. Br. [family ARACEAE], (1901). Plate 1 C.
Information
Rhizome 0.5–1.5 cm thick. Leaves 2 to several, glabrous; petiole 5–40 cm long, lower part mottled with purple; basal sheath up to half total petiole-length; blade very variable in shape, up to 30 x 12 cm, sagittate to hastate at the base, often lobed with midlobe lanceolate to linear, 10–30 x 0.5–6 cm, acute, side-lobes usually shorter, 0.3–3 cm wide. Inflorescence usually present as leaves emerge, at or near ground level; peduncle 1–6 cm long. Spathe greenish, purplish or brownish, 3.5–15 x 0.5–1.5 cm, cylindric; apex erect, acuminate, with oblique opening. Spadix hidden or slightly protruding from the mouth of the spathe; male part separated from 0.4–1 cm long female part by a 0.2–1.2 cm wide sterile zone. Male flowers with 2–4 stamens, filaments ± thickened towards the apex; perianth with unlobed to dentate margin. Female flowers 5–10 in 1–2 whorls; ovules c. 20. Seeds several, c. 2.5–3.5 mm long, sulcate.
Range
C1; S1, 2 East Africa and southwards to Mozambique.
Altitude range
40–450 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7544, 7680; Thulin 6328 A.
Notes
As treated here this is a highly variable taxon in Somalia and more than one species may be involved.
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