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CHIONOTHRIX somalensis Hook. J. [family AMARANTHACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CHIONOTHRIX somalensis Hook. J. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 33. —Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2226; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 111. Sericocoma somalensis S. Moore [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1877, 70.
Information
A grey pubescent shrub, nearly 10 ft. high. Leaves opposite; blade 1/2– 3/4 in. long, obovate; petioles 1/10 in. long. Spikes 5–7 in. long, with 40–60 flowers, but sometimes very much smaller. Bract and bracteoles hardly 1/6 in. long, obscurely pubescent. Young perianth oblong, snow-white.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, 3600 ft., Hildebrandt, 1519!

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CHIONOTHRIX somalensis Hook. J. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 33. —Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2226; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 111. Sericocoma somalensis S. Moore [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1877, 70.
Information
A grey pubescent shrub, nearly 10 ft. high. Leaves opposite; blade 1/2– 3/4 in. long, obovate; petioles 1/10 in. long. Spikes 5–7 in. long, with 40–60 flowers, but sometimes very much smaller. Bract and bracteoles hardly 1/6 in. long, obscurely pubescent. Young perianth oblong, snow-white.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, 3600 ft., Hildebrandt, 1519!

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CHIONOTHRIX somalensis Hook. J. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 33. —Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2226; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 111. Sericocoma somalensis S. Moore [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1877, 70.
Information
A grey pubescent shrub, nearly 10 ft. high. Leaves opposite; blade 1/2– 3/4 in. long, obovate; petioles 1/10 in. long. Spikes 5–7 in. long, with 40–60 flowers, but sometimes very much smaller. Bract and bracteoles hardly 1/6 in. long, obscurely pubescent. Young perianth oblong, snow-white.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, 3600 ft., Hildebrandt, 1519!
CHIONOTHRIX somalensis Hook. J. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
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