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Identification
Bidens steppia Sherff [family ASTERACEAE ] Bidens schimperi Sch.Bip. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rayner,T.G.J.,
Related name
  • Coreopsis ambacensis
  • Coreopsis steppia
  • Bidens grantii
  • Coreopsis unrecorded
  • Coreopsis multiflora
  • Coreopsis vulgaris
  • Coreopsis injucunda
  • Bidens steppia
  • Bidens schimperi

Flora

Entry for Bidens grantii (Oliv.) Sherff [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
Bidens grantii (Oliv.) Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 59: 309 (1915) & in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 16: 539 (1937); F.P.U.: 172, fig. 112 (1962); Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 634, fig. 195/1 (1985); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: pl. 353 (1987); Lisowski, Asterac. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 141 (1991); Mesfin in K.B. 48: 486 (1993); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 218 (1994). Type: Tanzania, Bukoba District: Karagwe, Grant 448 (K!, holo., BR!, iso.)
Coreopsis grantii Oliv. [family COMPOSITAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. 29: 98, fig. 65 (1873); Oliv. & Hiern, F.T.A. 3: 388 (1877)
Bidens kivuensis Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 145 (1934). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Mulungu, Lebrun 5467 (BR!, holo.)
Bidens grantii Sherff var. dawei [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 145 (1934). Type: Uganda, Masaka District: Buddu, Dawe 243 (K!, holo.)
Bidens grantii Sherff var. scaettae [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 145 (1934). Type: Rwanda, Nyabihus, Scaetta 2286 (BR!, holo.)
Bidens kivuensis Sherff var. armata [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 145 (1934). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Nyagezi basin and surrounding mountains, Boutakoff 57 (BR!, holo.)
Bidens steppia Sherff var. humbertii [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 145 (1934). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Beiga Mts, Humbert 7593 (BM!, holo., P!, iso.)
Coreopsis quarrei Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 145 (1934). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Katuba–Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Quarré 419 p.p. (BR!, holo.)
Coreopsis giorgii Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 145 (1934). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Katompe, De Giorgi 170 (BR!, holo.)
Bidens straminoides Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Amer. J. Bot. 22: 706 (1935). Type: Rwanda, Mt Bohanga, Scaetta 2272 (BR!, holo.)
Bidens snowdenii Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 17: 586 (1939). Type: Uganda, Kigezi District: Mabungo, Snowden 1631 (K!, holo.)
Information
Annual herb 0.5–2.5 m high; stem purplish, branched above, sparsely pilose to glabrous. Leaves narrowly deltoid in outline, bipinnatifid to pinnately 3–5-partite, 3.5–10.5 cm long, 2.5–7.5 cm wide, segments rhomboidally ovate or lanceolate, dentate, scabrid-pubescent above, pubescent beneath, glandular-punctate. Capitula terminal, in lax cymes; peduncle to 5.5 cm long; involucre 5–7 mm long; outer phyllaries 8–10, hispid, inner phyllaries 8, orange, sparsely pubescent or glabrous; paleae to 8 mm long. Ray florets yellow or orange-yellow, neuter, 8–10, rays 10–25x6–7 mm; disc florets yellow, 3.5–4 mm long. Achenes black, narrowly ellipsoid, 4–7 mm long, hairy in upper part; aristae 2, 1–2.2 mm long, antrorsely barbed.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4; K 3; T 1, 2
Altitude range
1100–2100 m
Distribution
KENYA Nakuru District Molo, 1930, ? R.W. Mettam 255!TANZANIA Bukoba District Mukigando, undated, Ford 765!TANZANIA Ngara District Rusomo Falls, Mar. 1960, Tanner 4768!TANZANIA Mbulu District Mt Hanang, Nov. 1932, Geilinger 3470!UGANDA Ankole District Kyibego, Apr. 1970, Katende & Lye 130!UGANDA Kigezi District Kambuga, Apr. 1941, A.S. Thomas 3806!UGANDA Masaka District near Luunga in Jubiya Forest, May 1969, Lye & Morrison 2968!
Distribution (external)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
Notes
USES.None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Least concern (LC) Said to be abundant in Ankole and Kigezi.

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