Updates and new reports for the flora of northern Somalia (with notes on Dicoma thuliniana and Commiphora playfairii)

Abstract

Based on collections held at herbarium FT new and noteworthy records of vascular plants from tropical Northeast Africa are provided. Five taxa – Drimia intricata, Gisekia pharnaceoides var. alata, Phyllanthus chevalieri, Vincetoxicum spirale, Vincetoxicum diplostigma – are recorded as new for the Flora of Somalia. For four species – Campylanthus parviflorus, Commiphora spinulosa, Herniaria bicolor, Pulicaria gabrielii – previously known from a single collection or only from the type locality, new records are presented. For 21 species (Amaranthus graecizans subsp. graecizans, Boswellia rivae, Coelachyrum piercei, Coleus argentifolius, Commiphora playfairii, Cornulaca ehrenbergii, Crabbea albolutea, Crepis rueppellii, Diceratella revoilii, Dicoma thuliniana, Euphorbia geldorensis, Farsetia longisiliqua, Gymnosporia arbutifolia, Gymnosporia somalensis, Iphiona pinnatifida, Marsdenia stelostigma, Pavonia burchellii, Pluchea dioscoridis, Psiadia incana, Ruttya fruticosa, Tarchonanthus camphoratus) new distributional or noteworthy records are reported.