M. Thulin (2006) Echiochilon. Flora of Somalia 3: 55-58
Plants herbs or shrublets. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire. Inflorescences cymose, terminal or interspersed among the leaves. Flowers radially to bilaterally symmetric; calyces 5-lobed, enlarging in fruit, radial to 2-lipped, obes equal to unequal; corollas 5-lobed, radial to 2-lipped, throats hairy; stamens 5, attached in the corolla tubes, included to slightly exserted; ovaries 4-lobed; styles gynobasic, slender; stigmas 2, slender, subterminal, with 2-fid to notched sterile tips extending beyond the stigmatic region. Fruits 1-4 ovoid to cordate nutlets, smooth and shiny to tuberculate.
Echiochilon includes about 17 species, most of which are native in the Horn of Africa, seome extending to Mauritania and Morocco in the west and Pakistan and India in the east. The Flora of Somalia reports 6 species as growing in Somaliland and Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.