Updates and new reports for the Flora of southern Somalia and north‐eastern Kenya (with a note on Blepharis kenyensis).

Based on the collections held at herbarium FT, new and noteworthy records of vascular plants are provided for the flora of southern Somalia and north‐eastern Kenya. One taxon, Polycarpaea somalensis is recorded as new for the flora of Kenya. Nine taxa, Cyanotis aff. foecunda, Blepharis kenyensis, Launaea sarmentosa, Jatropha hildebrandtii var. hildebrandtii, Scaevola taccada, Polygala aff. muratii, Portulaca coralloides, Portulaca oblonga, Grewia glandulosa are recorded as new for the flora of Somalia and the presence of four taxa, Aneilema lamuense, Ehretia bakeri, Ipomoea aitonii, Strychnos decussata, previously known from single collections, is confirmed. New distributional or noteworthy records are reported for 16 species (Dyschoriste bayensis, Kleinia grantii, Pluchea sarcophylla, Vernonia bayensis, Maerua angolensis subsp. angolensis, Polycarpaea somalensis, Ipomoea kotschyana, Euphorbia hirta, Jatropha stuhlmannii, Lobelia fervens subsp. fervens, Flueggea leucopyrus, Digitaria macroblephara, Portulaca commutata, Talinum portulacifolium, Melhania kelleri, Corchorus aestuans) and for the recently described Emilia corallina one additional record is provided. A note on capsule and seed morphology of Blepharis kenyensis is included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]