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26 Collection Holdings native to Somalia:

Apocynaceae

    Subfamily Apocynoideae
    Tribe Nerieae

    • Adenium obesum - eastern Africa, northern Arabia
    • Adenium obesum - Socotra

    Subfamily Asclepiadoideae

    • Pachycymbium decaisneanum - Morocco to Sudan

    Subfamily Rauvolfioideae
    Tribe Tabernaemontaneae

    • Tabernaemontana elegans - S. Somalia to S. Africa

    Araceae

      Subfamily Pisteae

      • Pistia stratiotes - Pantropical

      Asparagaceae

        Subfamily Scilloideae
        Tribe Hyacintheae

        • Drimiopsis botryoides - S. Ethiopia to Tanzania

        Subfamily Scilloideae
        Tribe Ornithogaleae

        • Albuca virens - Eritrea to S. Africa W/C

        Bignoniaceae

          Subfamily
          Tribe Tecomeae

          • Kigelia africana - tropical Africa

          Celastraceae

          • Gymnosporia senegalensis - southern Africa

          Combretaceae

            Subfamily Combretoideae
            Tribe Combreteae

            • Combretum molle - Africa

            Cyperaceae

              Subfamily Cyperoideae
              Tribe Cypereae

              • Cyperus alternifolius - Trop. & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Arabian Pen.

              Ebenaceae

              • Euclea racemosa - tropical eastern Africa

              Equisetaceae

              • Equisetum ramosissimum - warm-temperate to tropical, nearly cosmopolitan
              • Equisetum ramosissimum - warm-temperate to tropical, nearly cosmopolitan

              Euphorbiaceae

                Subfamily Acalyphoideae
                Tribe Acalypheae

                • Ricinus communis - northeast Africa

                Subfamily Euphorbioideae
                Tribe Euphorbieae

                • Euphorbia abyssinica - E Sudan (Red Sea Hills), Eritrea, N Ethiopia, N Somalia
                • Euphorbia balsamifera ssp. adenensis - Arabian peninsula, Sudan, Somalia
                • Euphorbia tirucalli - Unknown, spread world wide in tropical and subtropical areas

                Fabaceae

                  Subfamily Faboideae
                  Tribe Podalyrieae

                  • Calpurnia aurea - South Africa - south-eastern Cape northwards to Ethiopia

                  Geraniaceae

                  • Pelargonium quinquelobatum - eastern Africa

                  Malpighiaceae

                  • Acridocarpus zanzibaricus - Tanzania, Dar es Salaam region W/C

                  Malvaceae

                    Subfamily Malvoideae
                    Tribe Gossypieae

                    • Thespesia populnea - Old World tropics, naturalized in New World

                    Orchidaceae

                      Subfamily Epidendroideae
                      Tribe Cymbidieae

                      • Eulophia petersii - Eritrea to S. Africa, Socotra, Arabian Pen.

                      Solanaceae

                        Subfamily Solanoideae
                        Tribe Physaleae

                        • Withania somnifera - Africa. southern Europe and western Asia

                        Xanthorrhoeaceae

                          Subfamily Asphodeloideae

                          • Aloe cremnophila - Somalia - northern region
                          • Aloe jucunda - Somalia
                          W/C = Wild Collected

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