Edithcolea sordida N.E.Br.
, Nat. Hist. Sokotra & Abd-el-Kuri [Forbes] 486 (1903).- 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