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Flora of Somalia, Mats Thulin (Editor) (FoSO)

The Flora of Somalia is a 4 volume work published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The first volume was published in 1993, the last in 2006. It is a multi-authored work contains detailed descriptions, distributional information, identification keys, numerous illustrations, and considerable additional information for each taxon. The distributional information is given in terms of regions. This site offers a view of the distributional information in the flora.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 July 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection Statistics
  • 8,056 specimen records
  • 8,052 (100%) georeferenced
  • 157 families
  • 935 genera
  • 2,805 species
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acokanthera (3)
  • Adenium (8)
  • Ancylobotrys (2)
  • Ballyanthus (1)
  • Blyttia (7)
  • Buckollia (1)
  • Calcareophilum (2)
  • Calotropis (4)
  • Caralluma (25)
  • Carissa (2)
  • Catharanthus (2)
  • Ceropegia (15)
  • Conomitra (1)
  • Cryptolepis (10)
  • Cryptostegia (1)
  • Cynanchum (26)
  • Desmidorchis (24)
  • Duvalia (4)
  • Echidnopsis (25)
  • Edithcolea (8)
  • Ephippiocarpa (2)
  • Glossonema (13)
  • Gomphocarpus (8)
  • Goydera (2)
  • Huernia (5)
  • Hunteria (2)
  • Landolphia (1)
  • Leptadenia (5)
  • Marsdenia (6)
  • Nerium (2)
  • Odontanthera (2)
  • Orbea (6)
  • Oxystelma (2)
  • Pentarrhinum (4)
  • Pentatropis (9)
  • Pergularia (10)
  • Periploca (6)
  • Pleurostelma (4)
  • Plumeria (1)
  • Pseudolithos (12)
  • Pseudopectinaria (3)
  • Raphionacme (1)
  • Rhytidocaulon (6)
  • Saba (3)
  • Sanguilluma (7)
  • Schizostephanus (1)
  • Schlechterella (2)
  • Secamone (1)
  • Strophanthus (5)
  • Tabernaemontana (2)
  • Tacazzea (1)
  • Thevetia (2)
  • Tylophora (4)
  • White-sloanea (3)
  • Wrightia (3)