Commelina mascarenica C.B. Clarke
date: label: Collection Date
content: 17 Jun 2006
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 78 - Southeastern U.S.A.
label: Collector
content: Audrey J. Faden
notes: label: Notes
content: SOURCE: Plant 2 from seed collected 14 Aug 1992. FIELD DATA: SOMALIA. Middle Shebeelle Region, Jowhar District, Burane-Mahaddei road, 1.9 km; ca. 2°59'N 45°35'E. Clay plain with cultivation (maize) and Acacia nilotica thickets. Roadside thorn-fence. Scrambling herb; spathes sticky; upper cincinnus regularly produced and 1-flowered, sometimes perfect; lower cincinnus flowers perfect or staminate; petals all blue; filaments all pale; antherodes 3, large, 6-lobed, bright yellow; lateral stamen anthers dark blue; capsules 5-seeded, ellipsoid; seeds ellipsoid, slightly rugose to transversely ribbed; leaves not all cordate-amplexicaul. Locally common. Faded at 0930 hr. Somali Name: BAAR MAROODI or BARR; said to be either palatable or unpalatable to livestock (by different informants), [MAROODI means elephant and might refer to the large size of the plant relative to the more common C. forskaolii]; some seeds were definitely ribbed. [Later study showed that the seeds belonged to two species, C. mascarenica (88/269) – the slightly rugose seeds – and C. petersii (88/269A) – the ribbed seeds, so this was definitely a mixed collection. It is not clear whether the above description refers to one or both species because it was not recognized in the field that two species were present.] Collected 5 December 1988. Collector R.B. Faden and P. Kuchar 88/269.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Smithsonian Greenhouse., Prince George's, Maryland, United States, North America
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content: Botany
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content: Flowering plants and ferns
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Commelina mascarenica C.B. Clarke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Other Numbers
content: Smithsonian Greenhouse Accession No : 1988-049
label: Other Numbers
content: Multi-sheeted specimen : Sheet 01 of 02
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Monocotyledonae Commelinales Commelinaceae