- Family:
- Apocynaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Pseudolithos P.R.O.Bally
Pseudolithos dodsonianus (Lavranos) Bruyns & Meve
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Type
- N2, 4 km NNW of “Erigavo”, Lavranos 7326 (FT holo.).
- Morphology General Habit
- Plants forming small groups of up to about 30 articulately jointed stems, sometimes rooting adventitiously; stems elongate, clearly 4-angled, 20–60 mm long, c. 10 mm wide
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers 1–3 on short peduncle, opening successively from flowering eyes near the stem tips
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla rotate, very dark reddish-brown, glabrous, c. 6 mm wide with broadly triangular lobes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corona
- Corona dark purple-brown; outer lobes with 2 short, ascending segments; inner lobes ± strap-shaped with truncate tips.
- Distribution
- N2 not known elsewhere.
- Ecology
- Altitude range 1400–1850 m.
- Note
- This is very closely related to P. mccoyi Lavranos & Mies in Yemen and Oman.
Native to:
Somalia, Yemen
Pseudolithos dodsonianus (Lavranos) Bruyns & Meve appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Edinburgh J. Bot. 52: 202 (1995)
Accepted by
- Albers, F. & Meve, U. (eds.) (2002). Illustrated handbook of succulent plants Asclepiadaceae, corr. 2nd printing: 1-318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg,New York.
- Thulin, M. (ed.) (2006). Flora of Somalia 3: 1-626. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Thulin, M. (ed.) (2006). Flora of Somalia 3: 1-626. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by J. Lavranos [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0