- Family:
- Verbenaceae J.St.-Hil.
Chascanum E.Mey.

[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Erect or spreading perennial herbs or subshrubs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves mostly distinctly toothed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate in terminal spikes or racemes; bracts small; bracteoles minute or absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx narrowly tubular, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, splitting longitudinally at maturity
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white, yellowish or pink; tube slender, straight or curved, often widened at apex, glabrous outside, pilose inside; limb ± 2-lipped with 5 subequal to unequal lobes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, inserted in upper part of corolla tube, included or slightly exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary narrowly oblong, 2-celled, each cell with 1 basal ovule; style filiform; stigma ± oblique
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit of 2 1-seeded linear-oblong nutlets ribbed on outer surface, sometimes winged at apex.
- Distribution
- Some 32 species, mainly African, extending to Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and India.
[FTEA]
Verbenaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1992
- Morphology General Habit
- Erect or spreading perennial herbs or undershrubs, often quite woody at base and often densely pubescent Leaves opposite or subopposite, mostly ovate or oblong, toothed or incised-dentate, rarely ± entire, ± petiolate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate in terminal spikes or spike-like racemes; rhachis not excavated; bracts small and narrow; bracteoles minute or absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx narrowly tubular, 5-ribbed and 5-angled, somewhat oblique, 5-toothed, dilating and splitting longitudinally at maturity
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white, yellowish or pink, infundibuliform or hypocrateriform; tube slender, straight or curved, often widened at apex, glabrous outside, pilose inside between stamens; limb ± oblique, with 5 subequal or unequal lobes, ± 2-lipped
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in upper part of the corolla-tube, included or slightly exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary cylindrical or narrowly oblong, glabrous, 2-locular, each locule with one basal anatropous ovule; style terminal, filiform, elongate; stigma ± oblique, sub-bilobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit straw-coloured to black, oblong, of 2 1-seeded linear-oblong nutlets ribbed on outer surface, sometimes winged at apex, minutely verruculose-asperulous on seed-part inside
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds linear, exalbuminous.
[FZ]
Flora Zambesiaca. Vol 8, Pt 7. Avicenniaceae, R. Fernandes. Nesogenaceae, M.A. Diniz. Verbenaceae, R. Fernandes. Lamiaceae, R. Fernandes. 2005.
- Distribution
- A genus of c. 25 species, mainly African, extending to Madagascar, Arabia, Pakistan and India.
- Morphology General Habit
- Erect or spreading perennial herbs or undershrubs, ± woody at the base, ± densely pubescent, the [a4] indumentum often with gland-tipped hairs.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves opposite-decussate, simple, entire, serrate or dentate, lobed or pinnatipartite, sessile or petiolate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate in terminal spikes or racemes, slightly zygomorphic[a5].
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx narrowly tubular, 5-angled, with a green longitudinal rib on each angle and hyaline whitish between the ribs, slightly oblique, 5-dentate or 5-apiculate, the teeth ± unequal; fruiting calyx dilating and splitting longitudinally at the front, from base to apex.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white or yellowish, funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform; tube slender straight or curved, somewhat widened at the apex, glabrous outside; limb ± oblique, 5-lobed or 5-partite with lobes subequal or unequal, glabrous outside, papillose-hairy at the base as well as in the throat.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, didynamous, included, inserted in the upper part of the corolla tube; filaments short, shortly glandular hairy; anthers ovate, basifixed.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary cylindric, glabrous, 1-carpellate, carpel 2-locular, each locule with one basal anatropous ovule; style terminal, filiform, glabrous; stigma ± oblique, divided at the apex into an anterior stigmatiferous lobe and a posterior small tooth.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a schizocarp enclosed within the persistent calyx, shorter than the calyx, oblong, hard, glabrous, formed by 2 equal 1-seeded mericarps, ribbed on the outer surface, sometimes winged in the upper 1/3, minutely verruculose-asperulous on the seed part inside, separating from one another[a6].
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds linear, without albumen.
Native to:
Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Cape Provinces, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Guinea, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Sri Lanka
- Chascanum adenostachyum (Schauer) Moldenke
- Chascanum angolense Moldenke
- Chascanum caespitosum (H.Pearson) Moldenke
- Chascanum cernuum (L.) E.Mey.
- Chascanum cuneifolium (L.f.) E.Mey.
- Chascanum elburense Thulin
- Chascanum garipense E.Mey.
- Chascanum gillettii Moldenke
- Chascanum glandulosum Thulin
- Chascanum hanningtonii (Oliv.) Moldenke
- Chascanum hederaceum (Sond.) Moldenke
- Chascanum hildebrandtii (Vatke) J.B.Gillett
- Chascanum humbertii Moldenke
- Chascanum hyderabadense (Walp.) Moldenke
- Chascanum incisum (H.Pearson) Moldenke
- Chascanum insulare Moldenke
- Chascanum integrifolium (H.Pearson) Moldenke
- Chascanum krookii (Gürke) Moldenke
- Chascanum laetum Fenzl ex Walp.
- Chascanum latifolium (Harv.) Moldenke
- Chascanum marrubiifolium Fenzl ex Walp.
- Chascanum mixtum Thulin
- Chascanum moldenkei (J.B.Gillett) Sebsebe & Verdc.
- Chascanum namaquanum (Bolus ex H.Pearson) Moldenke
- Chascanum obovatum Sebsebe
- Chascanum pinnatifidum (L.f.) E.Mey.
- Chascanum pumilum E.Mey.
- Chascanum rariflorum (A.Terracc.) Moldenke
- Chascanum schlechteri (Gürke) Moldenke
- Chascanum sessilifolium (Vatke) Moldenke
- Chascanum sulcatum Sebsebe
- Chascanum yemenense Sebsebe
Chascanum E.Mey. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 275 (1838)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Comm. Pl.Afr. Austr. 275 (1837)
- Moldenke in Fedde Rep. 45: 114 (1938).
Flora Zambesiaca
- Atkins in Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII: 463 (2004).
- Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 57 : 265–273 (1984).
- Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 275 (1838) nom. conserv.
- Gilbert et al. in Taxon 35: 391 (1986).
- Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII : 463 (2004).
- Kew Bull. 43 : 319 (1988).
- Moldenke in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 45: 113–160, 300–319 (1938).
- Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 45 : 113–160, 300–319 (1938).
- Sebsebe & Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 43: 319 (1988).
- Taxon 35 : 391 (1986).
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 275 (1838)
- Gilbert et al. in Taxon 35: 391 (1986)
- Gillett in K.B. 10: 131 (1955)
- Moldenke in F.R. 45: 113–160, 300–319 (1938)
- Moldenke in F.R. 46: 1–12 (1939)
- Moldenke in Phytologia 52: 323–329 (1983)
- Rev. Sudam. Bot. 6: 15–24 (1939)
- Saxena in Indian Journ. Bot. 3: 95–102 (1980) (pollen)
- Sebsebe & Verdc. in K.B. 43: 519 (1988), nom. conserv.
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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