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[SANS] Flora Somalia 2:2

This is the last bit if anyone wants a jpg of fig18 a line drawing of
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including peduncle: flowers 3-6 in a cluster, white or greenish;
pedicels 2.5-3 mm long, articulated at or slightly above the middle.
Free parts of tepals c. 12 mm long, linear. obtuse; tube C. 10 mm
long. Bushland and woodland'. 400-1500 m. Nl,. SI; Ethiopia. Gillett
3997; Carter 867; Bally 8037. The material from S1. Moggi & Bavazzano
1256 and Beckett & White 1450A, has more slender leaves and smaller
paired flowers compared to typical S. phillipsiae and seem to
intergrade with S. grocilis N.E. Br. (1911) in East Africa that is an
earlier name. On the other hand flowers with free part of tepals
15-17 mm long and tube 20-28 mm long has been reported in material
from Ethiopia (Dyer & Bruce in Fl. P1. Afr. 28: p1. 1090 (1950-1951).
The relation-ship between S. phillipsiae and S. gracilis obviously
needs to be further studied.

4.      S. flscheri (Bak.) Marais (1986): Boophane flscheri Bak. (1898).
S.      singularis N.E. Br. (19U).
Plant without aerial stem. Leaves solitary. erect. rigid, 45-240 x 2-4 cm,
slightly rough, cylindric, with 4-6 furrows on the sides and back
extending from base to apex and with a narrow concave channel all
along above, suddenly narrowing to a stout whitish spine-like tip,
marked with transverse pale green bands when young. Infl escence a
spike-like to head-like raceme. Free parts of tepals 5-13 mm long,
linear, obtuse: tube 20-50 mm long. Habitat unknown but probably
deciduous bushland at c. 60 m. S3: S Ethiopia. Kenya. N Tanzania.
Senni 131; Calvino s.n.; Guidotti s.n. (all FT). Calvino s.n. was
identified as S. stuckyi Godefr.-Leb. (1903) by N.E. Brown according
to Chiovenda. Fl. Somala 2: 422 (1932). a species otherwise only
known from Mozambique. However. the leaves of the sterile Somali
material shows well-marked furrows along the sides and back and
therefore agree better with S. fischeri in Kenya and Tanzania, and I
provisionally refer it to this species. Flowering material from
Somalia is needed for conclusiveness. The description of the flowers
above is based on East African material, and is taken from Rauh in
Sukkulentenkunde 7-8:108-127 (1963) and Pfennig in Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
102: 175 (1981). According to Pfennig (op. cit.: 176, 1981) S.
sruckyi has a large head-like inflorescence with free parts of tepals
c. 40 mm long and tube 90-100 mm long. The record of S. robusta N.E.
Br. in Cuf. Enum.: 1571 ~97l) is based on Guidotti s.n. (FT). This
consists of sterile material from southern Somalia that belongs here.

5.      S. volkensil Gtirke (1895).
S.      intermedia N.E. Br. (~l4).
Acyntha polyrhitis Chiov. (~32): S. polyrhitis (Chiov.) Cuf. (1971);
type: S3, Gelib". Tozzi 410 (FT holo., K iso.).
 Plant without aerial stem. Leaves 5-8(-~2), spiral-ly arranged.
erect, rigid, 50-~20 x c. ~.5 cm, smooth to rough, subcylindric, with
30-40 fine but distinct furrows extending from base to apex on the
sides and back and with a concave furrowed channel all along

Fig. 18. Sonsevierin ehrenbergii. A: habit. B: flowering branch.
C: cross-section of leaf. - Modified from Agnew. Upland Kenya wild
flowers: 723 (1974).


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