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Published In: Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 39(Suppl.): xxi. 1969. (Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: Feb.-March
Type: Type: Hafun Peninsula, Moga Coast, Somalia, Puccioni & Stefanini (FI).
Distribution: Distribution: Somalia, S.W. Asia, N.W. India and Pakistan.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A plant of more or less a bushy habit with straggling branches. The leaves are fleshy and fruits sticky. The flower colour is variable.
Illustration: Commicarpus stenocarpus (Chiov.) Cufod. (Illustration)
Map Location: Baluchistan: G-2 S. Makran: near pond, 3 miles from Rest House, Gwadur, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6363; 6365 (KUH); id., S.I. Ali & S.A. Faruqi 1150; 1161 (KUH); 8 miles from Sunstar, Turbat rd., Sultanul Abedin 1151 (KUH) .

 

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Perennial 25-50 cm tall. Stem much branched, greyish white, younger branches densely puberulous glandular. Leaves ± fleshy (in nota), ovate or ovate-oblong to suborbicular or obcordate, 1-3 x 0.8-2.8 cm, obtuse to subacute or retuse, greyish tomentose, densely so when young. Petiole up to 1.4 cm long, glandular. Inflorescence glandular-puberulous. Flowers verticillate, 3-5 per node; nodes 0.8-1.3 cm apart. Pedicel 2.5-4 mm long; perianth infundibuliform, 5-5.5 mm long, pink-purple, purple or lilac (in nota). Stamens 3, far exserted. Style slender, stigma capitate. Anthocarp 6.5-7 mm long, clavate-subconical, strongly ribbed and tuberculate, yellow-brown.
 
 
 
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