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Plants slender shrubs. Young twigs densely covered with sessile or subsessile scales, these sometimes mexed with stiff glandular and eglandular hairs. Leaves alternate on young shoots, clustered on older branches; petioles up to 3-4 mm long, densely farinose; blades 4-40 mm long, 3-25(-30) mm wide, elliptic to obovate, both surfaces farinose or glabrescent, bases rounded to cuneate, tips rounded or retuse. Racemes with few flowers; rachises 0.8-3(-4.5) cm long, farinose; bracts trifid, central segment reduced; pedicels 0.7-1.5 cm long, farinose. Sepals 4, 0.5-1.2 cm long, about 0.4 cm wide, ovate-elliptic, outer surface farinose, margins puberulous; petals 4, with claw 6-7 mm long and oblanceolate blade 4-5 mm long; androphore 7-9 mm long, appendage 6-7 mm long, tubular, apically enlarged stamens 5, filaments 1-1.4 cm long, anthers about 3.5 mm long; gynophores 0.8-1.2 cm long, sparsely covered with subsessile or shortly stalked glands; ovary  4-4.5 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm in diameter, farinose, stigmatic region sessile, flattened. Fruit 2.2 -4 cm long, 0.2-0.3 cm in diameter, cylindrical, densely farinose. 

Cadaba farinosa has two subspecies:

1. Young twigs densely covered with sessile scales; pedicels uo to 1 cm long; sepals up to 1 cm long ... Cadaba farinosa subsp. farinosa

1. Young twigs covered with hairs, these often mixed with sessile scales; pedicels 1-1.2(-1.5) cm long; sepals (0.9-)1-1.2 cm long ... Cadaba farinosa subsp. adenotricha

©The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reproduced with permission. 

Awale & Jama (2018). Hordhaca dhirta badhtamaha Soomaalilaand.

Geed gaab illaa 2 m ah; oo si cidhiidh ah laamaha u bixiya oo dusha uu ka daboolay walax u eeg budo cad. Caleemo talantaalli ah, dameeri/cagaar ah, oo qaabka ugxanta ah oo hareeraha ka siman, oo ay budo caddaan ahi dabooshay. Ubax leh afar laacayaal oo hurdi khafiifa ah, oo ka sarreeya afar ma-laaceyaal oo cagaar/bunni ah oo leh faxal-side dheer oo muuqda. Midho wareegsan oo leh siidh farabadan, iyo budo cad oo dusha ah.

Sabada: Dhul kayn ah, hareeraha tog qallalan iyo saxare xigeenka, joog ah illaa 1450 m.

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