Bourreria teitensis (Gürke) Thulin

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Bourreria

Characteristics

Shrub or small tree 1.8–6 m. tall with spreading twiggy branches; youngest shoots with spreading white pubescence, the older whitish grey, strongly wrinkled, glabrescent, lenticellate, roughened with raised petiole-scars.. Leaf-blades brittle, oblong-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 0.5–5 cm. long, 0.3–3 cm. wide, rounded to emarginate at the apex, rounded, truncate, subcordate or ± cuneate at the base, coriaceous, the margins revolute, ± rugose or bullate with venation impressed above, discolorous, very rough above with tubercle-based stiff short white hairs and with some fine white pubescence above, glabrous beneath or with a few to ± dense white hairs on the venation.. Cymes terminating the short shoots, short, ± few-flowered, with dense gland-tipped pale ferruginous pubescence on the axes; peduncles and secondary peduncles 0.5–2 cm. long; pedicels 2–6 mm. long.. Calyx ± 7 mm. wide, deeply lobed, the lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, 2–3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, pubescent outside like the axes.. Corolla greenish yellow, campanulate; tube 3–4 mm. long; lobes ovate, 2.5–3 mm. long and wide.. Anthers just exserted.. Style 2 mm. long, very shortly bifid, the stigmas capitate.. Fruit red, globose, 6 mm. diameter, brown and wrinkled when dry, with 4 pyrenes; weathered pyrenes with 5 distinct close wings on back.. Fig. 10, p. 43.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Bourreria teitensis world distribution map, present in Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania, United Republic of

Conservation status

Bourreria teitensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:944288-1
WFO ID wfo-0000570035
COL ID 68QNN
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Synonyms

Bourreria teitensis Ehretia teitensis Hilsenbergia teitensis