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Vernonia lasiopus

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Identification
Isotype of Vernonia lasiopus O.Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for Vernonia ringoetii De Wild. [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 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
Vernonia ringoetii De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], Contr. Fl. Katanga: 228 (1921), as ringoeti; C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 237 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 126, t. 22/8 (1992); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 592 (1995). Syntypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Katanga, Shinsenda, Bequaert 492 (BR!, syn.) & Nieuwdorp, Ringoet 4 (BR!, syn.)
Vernonia alboviolacea De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in F.R. 13: 205 (1914), non Muschl. (1911). Type as above
Vernonia tuberculata Hutch. & B.L. Burtt [family COMPOSITAE], in Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 23: 39 (1932). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Kasiki, De Witte 463 (BR!, holo., K!, iso.)
Vernonia lasiopus [family COMPOSITAE], [sensu Earle Sm. in U.S. Dept. Agric. Handbook 396: 39 (1971) pro parte, non O. Hoffm. (1895)]
Information
Coarse shrub 1.5 m tall; stems tomentose. Leaves lanceolate, 4.5–9 cm long, 1.4–3.5 cm wide, cuneate to unwinged exauriculate petioloid base, margins serrate, apex acuminate, thinly scabridulous-pubescent above, pale-tomentose beneath. Capitula in corymbiform cymes; involucre 11–15 mm long; phyllaries 2–4-seriate, oblong, 4–18 mm long, green, including lanceolate to triangular attenuate appendages 7–13 mm long, 2.5–5.5 mm wide, mauve or lilac. Corolla mauve to lilac, 11.7–13 mm long, lobes 1.7–2 mm long. Achenes 3.2–3.8 mm long, ascending-pubescent; pappus multiseriate, 7–7.5 mm long. Fig. 38/9 (capitulum), p. 168.
Range
DISTR. T 4
Altitude range
1650–1800 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Kasesi R. on Sumbawanga–Chapota road, Mar. 1957, Richards 8458! & Empeta swamp near Chapota, Mar. 1957, Richards 8567! & Kasumba Village, 10 km from Matanga, June 1970, Sanane 1211!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Burundi
Zambia

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