Adenium dhofarense Rzepecky

Small tree or shrub ; up to 0 . 5-2 m tall , with a very thick , usually irregularly globose trunk , anchored by a few thick main roots , and topped by a crown of irregularly disposed flexuous branches . Bark thin , smooth usually pale grey , at the slightest bruise oozing a clear sap that soon turns white . Leaves deciduous , alternate , obovate-elliptic , large 70–140 x 50–100 mm , fresh green above , appearing quilted , with prominent whitish midrib flowing into (anastomosing) cladodromous venation , with revolute margins ; paler underside , sometimes hispidous , crowded at the branches apices in rarely more than 2 to 3 pairs ; stipules minute , blackish brown 0 . 5–1 . 5 mm caducous stipules , lax white felting at the tip of the branches . Inflorescences highly variable , in laxly flowered cymes at the extremity of the branches , sessile or with short pedicels , up to 8 mm long . Flowers bright pink , funnel shaped ; anther appendage usually just reaching the mouth of the corolla ... or slightly protruding ; throat generally yellow with magenta–red guiding stripes grouped in threes . Fruit a pair of stout , opposite , fusiform , dehiscent follicles , 120–150 mm x 12–15 mm , leathery and deep red , each filled with 40 to 70 seeds . Seeds cylindrical to slightly fusiform , 8–12 mm x 2–3 mm , with a beige papery tegument and a tuft of 30–40 mm long white yellowish hairs at each end . (Ref . Rzepecky ; 2015) .

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