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Chiliocephalum schimperi

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Identification
Isotype of Chiliocephalum schimperi Benth. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Achyrocline unrecorded
  • Chiliocephalum schimperi
  • Kralikia myriocephala
  • Helichrysum chiliocephalum
  • Kralikia schultzii

Flora

Entry for CHILIOCEPHALUM Schimperi Benth. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
CHILIOCEPHALUM Schimperi Benth. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hk. Ic. Pl. 1137.
Kralikia myriocephala Schultz Bip. [family POACEAE], in Schweinf. Fl. Æthiop. p. 151.
Kralikia Schultzii Buchinger ex Schultz Bip. [family POACEAE], in Schweinf. l. c p. 151.
Information
Erect herb, 1–2 1/2 ft. high, somewhat branched at crown, simple or subsimple above, hoary-tomentose or lanate on underside of leaves, inflorescence and upper part; stem and branches below terete, finely striate. Leaves linear or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, mucronate, slightly narrowed below to sessile base, upper slightly, lower distinctly, decurrent, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long by 1/4– 1/2 in. wide, longitudinally veined and thinly covered with short crisped pubescence above, sometimes viscid-glandular. Capitula campanulate-oblong, subsessile, 1/16 in. long, crowded in dense corymbose lanate cymes, 1 1/2–4 in. diameter.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land . Banks of high mountain streams in Semen, 10,000 ft., fl. October, Schimper!
Notes
The generic name Kralikia has been appropriated for a genus of grasses by Cosson and Durieu.

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