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COMMICARPUS pedunculosus (A. Rich.) Cufod. [family NYCTAGINACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: CHRISTOPHER WHITEHOUSE
Names
COMMICARPUS pedunculosus (A. Rich.) Cufod. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], E.P.A.: 79 (1953); Heriz-Smith, Wild Fl. Nairobi Roy. Nat. Park: 27 (1962); F.P.U., ed. 2: 107 (1971); Meikle in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 36: 241, fig. 2A (1978); Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 1: 206, fig. 44/3 (1978); Hepper et al., Annot. Check-list Pl. Mt. Kulal: 42 (1981); Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 40, t. 39/248 (1982) & Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 54, t. 653, 654 (1992); Thulin, Fl. Somalia 1: 171 (1993); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 84, t. 19 (1994). Types: Ethiopia, Choho, Quartin-Dillon (P, syn.) & Chelicote [Tchélikote], Petit (P, syn.)
Boerhavia pedunculosa A. Rich. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 210 (1850); P.O.A. C: 174 (1895)
Commicarpus pentandrus [family NYCTAGINACEAE], [sensu W.F.K.: 26, fig. 30 (1948), non (Burch.) Heimerl]
Information
Prostrate or scrambling, glabrescent to pubescent herb with stems up to 3 m. long. Leaves ovate, up to 7 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, the base shallowly cordate, truncate orcuneate, apex acute to obtuse; margins entire to sinuate; petioles up to 2 cm. long. Inflorescence a dense many-flowered head, on a long stout peduncle up to 23 cm.; flowers subsessile, but pedicels enlarging in fruit up to 4(–10) mm. long. Flowers infundibuliform, 8–10 mm. long, 7–10 mm. wide; upper perianth magenta to purple, with a green base, 6–8 mm. long. Stamens 3–6, exserted. Style exserted. Anthocarp clavate, 8–11 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide, with ± 5 thick stalked glands around the apex and a few scattered sessile glands below.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 2; K 1–4, 6; T 1, 2, 5
Altitude range
900–2400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District below Moroto, 6 Mar. 1936, Michelmore 1257! & Kangole, 25 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3441!;KENYA Northern Frontier Province Marsabit–Isiolo road, 9 Aug. 1968, Faden 68/524!;TANZANIA Musoma District 3 km. SE. of Banagi, 100 m. from Mugungu R., 14 Oct. 1966, H.M.H. Braun 48!;UGANDA Ankole District Sanga rest house, Oct. 1932, Eggeling 603!KENYA W. Suk District Marich Pass near Morobus [Moropus], June 1966, Tweedie 3301!;KENYA Masai District Lemek area, 28 Apr. 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 818!TANZANIA Masai District track to Kitumbeine, 2 Jan. 1969, Richards 23602!;TANZANIA Arusha District by the road from Arusha to Babati, 19 Nov. 1968, Richards 23405!
Distribution (external)
; Sudan
Ethiopia
Somalia
Rwanda
Yemen
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: CHRISTOPHER WHITEHOUSE
Names
COMMICARPUS pedunculosus (A. Rich.) Cufod. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], E.P.A.: 79 (1953); Heriz-Smith, Wild Fl. Nairobi Roy. Nat. Park: 27 (1962); F.P.U., ed. 2: 107 (1971); Meikle in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 36: 241, fig. 2A (1978); Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 1: 206, fig. 44/3 (1978); Hepper et al., Annot. Check-list Pl. Mt. Kulal: 42 (1981); Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 40, t. 39/248 (1982) & Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 54, t. 653, 654 (1992); Thulin, Fl. Somalia 1: 171 (1993); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 84, t. 19 (1994). Types: Ethiopia, Choho, Quartin-Dillon (P, syn.) & Chelicote [Tchélikote], Petit (P, syn.)
Boerhavia pedunculosa A. Rich. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 210 (1850); P.O.A. C: 174 (1895)
Commicarpus pentandrus [family NYCTAGINACEAE], [sensu W.F.K.: 26, fig. 30 (1948), non (Burch.) Heimerl]
Information
Prostrate or scrambling, glabrescent to pubescent herb with stems up to 3 m. long. Leaves ovate, up to 7 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, the base shallowly cordate, truncate orcuneate, apex acute to obtuse; margins entire to sinuate; petioles up to 2 cm. long. Inflorescence a dense many-flowered head, on a long stout peduncle up to 23 cm.; flowers subsessile, but pedicels enlarging in fruit up to 4(–10) mm. long. Flowers infundibuliform, 8–10 mm. long, 7–10 mm. wide; upper perianth magenta to purple, with a green base, 6–8 mm. long. Stamens 3–6, exserted. Style exserted. Anthocarp clavate, 8–11 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide, with ± 5 thick stalked glands around the apex and a few scattered sessile glands below.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 2; K 1–4, 6; T 1, 2, 5
Altitude range
900–2400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District below Moroto, 6 Mar. 1936, Michelmore 1257! & Kangole, 25 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3441!;KENYA Northern Frontier Province Marsabit–Isiolo road, 9 Aug. 1968, Faden 68/524!;TANZANIA Musoma District 3 km. SE. of Banagi, 100 m. from Mugungu R., 14 Oct. 1966, H.M.H. Braun 48!;UGANDA Ankole District Sanga rest house, Oct. 1932, Eggeling 603!KENYA W. Suk District Marich Pass near Morobus [Moropus], June 1966, Tweedie 3301!;KENYA Masai District Lemek area, 28 Apr. 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 818!TANZANIA Masai District track to Kitumbeine, 2 Jan. 1969, Richards 23602!;TANZANIA Arusha District by the road from Arusha to Babati, 19 Nov. 1968, Richards 23405!
Distribution (external)
; Sudan
Ethiopia
Somalia
Rwanda
Yemen
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: CHRISTOPHER WHITEHOUSE
Names
COMMICARPUS pedunculosus (A. Rich.) Cufod. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], E.P.A.: 79 (1953); Heriz-Smith, Wild Fl. Nairobi Roy. Nat. Park: 27 (1962); F.P.U., ed. 2: 107 (1971); Meikle in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 36: 241, fig. 2A (1978); Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 1: 206, fig. 44/3 (1978); Hepper et al., Annot. Check-list Pl. Mt. Kulal: 42 (1981); Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 40, t. 39/248 (1982) & Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 54, t. 653, 654 (1992); Thulin, Fl. Somalia 1: 171 (1993); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 84, t. 19 (1994). Types: Ethiopia, Choho, Quartin-Dillon (P, syn.) & Chelicote [Tchélikote], Petit (P, syn.)
Boerhavia pedunculosa A. Rich. [family NYCTAGINACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 210 (1850); P.O.A. C: 174 (1895)
Commicarpus pentandrus [family NYCTAGINACEAE], [sensu W.F.K.: 26, fig. 30 (1948), non (Burch.) Heimerl]
Information
Prostrate or scrambling, glabrescent to pubescent herb with stems up to 3 m. long. Leaves ovate, up to 7 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, the base shallowly cordate, truncate orcuneate, apex acute to obtuse; margins entire to sinuate; petioles up to 2 cm. long. Inflorescence a dense many-flowered head, on a long stout peduncle up to 23 cm.; flowers subsessile, but pedicels enlarging in fruit up to 4(–10) mm. long. Flowers infundibuliform, 8–10 mm. long, 7–10 mm. wide; upper perianth magenta to purple, with a green base, 6–8 mm. long. Stamens 3–6, exserted. Style exserted. Anthocarp clavate, 8–11 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide, with ± 5 thick stalked glands around the apex and a few scattered sessile glands below.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 2; K 1–4, 6; T 1, 2, 5
Altitude range
900–2400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District below Moroto, 6 Mar. 1936, Michelmore 1257! & Kangole, 25 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3441!;KENYA Northern Frontier Province Marsabit–Isiolo road, 9 Aug. 1968, Faden 68/524!;TANZANIA Musoma District 3 km. SE. of Banagi, 100 m. from Mugungu R., 14 Oct. 1966, H.M.H. Braun 48!;UGANDA Ankole District Sanga rest house, Oct. 1932, Eggeling 603!KENYA W. Suk District Marich Pass near Morobus [Moropus], June 1966, Tweedie 3301!;KENYA Masai District Lemek area, 28 Apr. 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 818!TANZANIA Masai District track to Kitumbeine, 2 Jan. 1969, Richards 23602!;TANZANIA Arusha District by the road from Arusha to Babati, 19 Nov. 1968, Richards 23405!
Distribution (external)
; Sudan
Ethiopia
Somalia
Rwanda
Yemen
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