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Cyanotis somaliensis C.B.Clarke

Pussy-ears

Commelinaceae · Somalia

No habitat climate
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Cyanotis somaliensis, photograph Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCyanotis somaliensis, photograph Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCyanotis somaliensis, photograph Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCyanotis somaliensis, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsCyanotis somaliensis, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsCyanotis somaliensis, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Cyanotis somaliensis, pussy ears, is a species of flowering plant in the family Commelinaceae, described in 1895. It is endemic to Somalia in East Africa. Growing to 12 cm (4.7 in) tall by 50 cm (20 in) broad, it is an evergreen perennial with hairy, slightly succulent leaves and, in summer, three-lobed blue or purple flowers which resemble those of Tradescantia, a closely related genus.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cyanotis somaliensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 1 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km. 1 of the 1 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeSomalia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 6 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Cyanotis 9 in the reference

Cyanotis arachnoidea Cyanotis arachnoidea Commelinaceae Photo: CC BY, 祐Cyanotis axillaris Cyanotis axillaris Creeping Cradle Plant Photo: CC BY, Rohit NaniwadekarCyanotis beddomei Cyanotis beddomei Teddy-bear Vine Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCyanotis ciliata Cyanotis ciliata Commelinaceae Photo: CC BY, 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)Cyanotis cristata Cyanotis cristata Crested Cat Ears Photo: CC BY, Raja Sekhar ChimiralaCyanotis kawakamii Cyanotis kawakamii Commelinaceae Photo: CC BY, 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)Cyanotis lapidosa Cyanotis lapidosa Commelinaceae Photo: CC BY, Matthew FainmanCyanotis speciosa Cyanotis speciosa Doll's Powderpuff Photo: CC BY, Henry de LangeCyanotis vaga Cyanotis vaga Commelinaceae Photo: CC BY, Sebastian Doak

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Commelinaceae
Described by
C.B.Clarke
Native to
Somalia
Wild records
1 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-221 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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