IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:97343-1
Publication
The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri: being the report upon the results of the Conjoint Expedition to these Islands in 1898-9... / edited by Henry O. Forbes, L.L.D. Liverpool
Collation
486
Family as entered in IPNI
Asclepiadaceae

Type Information

Locality
Socotra archipelago: “This species (No. 145) grew in considerable abundance on the low granite hills in the Garieh Plain; and also round our camp at Jena-agahan.  Our Somali boys said they knew it well in the hills of their own country, where they chewed the leaves. These of the Sokotran plant were, however, they said, more bitter than their own plant.”

Original Data

Remarks
Socotra

Remarks

The publishing author Henry O. Forbes ascribed the species name E. sordida and its description to N.E. Brown

Links

Basionym of
Ceropegia sordida (N.E.Br.) Bruyns, S. African J. Bot. 112: 412 (2017).