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Euryops brownei

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Identification
Euryops brownei S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Euryops brownei
  • Euryops agrianthoides

Flora

Entry for Euryops brownei S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Euryops brownei S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 54: 284 (1916); A.V.P.: 246 & 366 (1957); B. Nord. in Op. Bot. 20: 125, t. 13/b–e (1968); Blundell, Wild Flow. E. Afr.: fig. 363 (1987); K.T.S.L.: 557, fig. (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 225, t. 95 (1994). Type: Kenya, Mt Kenya, Feb. 1914, Orde Browne s.n. (BM!, holo.)
Euryops agrianthoides Mattf. [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 33: 43 (1924); T.T.C.L.: 150 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Arusha District, Mt Meru, Uhlig 534 (B†, holo., EA, lecto., chosen by Nordenstam)
Euryops brownei R.E.Fr. subsp. aberdarica [family COMPOSITAE], in Act. Hort. Berg. 9: 158 (1928); Chiov., Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 72 (1935). Type: Kenya, Nyandarua/Aberdares, Sattima, Fries & Fries 2466 (UPS!, holo., BM!, S!, iso.)
Information
Woody herb or shrub 60–300 cm tall; stem blackish, showing leaf-scars after fall of the rather persistent bases of the dead leaves. Leaves crowded, sessile, linear, light green, 1–3.2 cm long, 0.1–0.25 cm wide, slightly narrowed above the expanded membraneous base, minutely serrulate or entire, bluntly apiculate, shortly ciliate on the margins near the base, otherwise glabrous. Capitula radiate, numerous, solitary on upper axillary peduncles; stalks of individual capitula 0.8–4.6 cm long, very sparsely hairy to densely tomentose; involucres woolly at the base; phyllaries 13–16, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4.5–6.5 mm long, united in lower half or third, obtuse to acuminate, shortly hairy at the apex. Ray florets (11–)13(–21), bright yellow, rays 10–15 mm long, 2.7–4 mm wide; disc florets many, yellow, 2.3–4 mm long. Achenes oblong, 2.5–4.5 mm long, 5–8-ribbed, glabrous or sparsely pilose; pappus of bristles 1–2.5 mm long. Fig. 119 (page 568).
Range
DISTR. K 2–4; T 2 endemic to Elgon, Cherangani, Nyandarua/Aberdare Mts, Mt Kenya and Mt Meru
Altitude range
(1550–)2700–3750 m
Distribution
KENYA Elgeyo District Cherangani, E of Kamelogon, Jan. 1971, Tweedie 3910!KENYA Nyandarua/Aberdares, N Kinangop, July 1948, Hedberg 1550!KENYA Mt Kenya, 34 km NW of Nanyuki, Mar. 1968, Mwangangi & Fosberg 570!TANZANIA Arusha District Mt Meru, Uhlig 534TANZANIA & W slopes above Olkakola, Nov. 1948, Hedberg 2433!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area CONSERVATION Fairly widespread with a large altitude range; probably least concern, LC

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