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Coreopsis mattfeldii

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Name

Identification
Coreopsis mattfeldii Sherff [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Coreopsis steppia
  • Coreopsis oligoflora
  • Bidens oligoflora
  • Coreopsis mattfeldii

Flora

Entry for Bidens oligoflora (Klatt) 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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Bidens oligoflora (Klatt) Wild [family COMPOSITAE], in Kirkia 6: 20 (1967); Lisowski, Asterac. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 143, t. 33 (1991); Mesfin in K.B. 48: 487 (1993). Type: Angola, Malange, Buchner 32 (B†, holo., GH, lecto., chosen by Wild)
Coreopsis oligoflora Klatt [family COMPOSITAE], in Leopoldina 25: 107 (1889); Sherff in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 11, 6: 386 (1936)
Coreopsis mattfeldii Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 76: 839 (1923) & in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 11, 6: 392 (1936). Type: Zambia, Lake Tanganyika, Fwamba, Carson 75 (B†, holo., K!, lecto., chosen by Mesfin)
Coreopsis oligoflora Sherff var. robusta [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 90: 386 (1930) & in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 11, 6: 386, 388 (1936). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Bolobo, Buttner 408 (B†, holo.)
Bidens onisciformis Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Gaz. 96: 144 (1934) & in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 16: 559 (1937). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), W Katana [Kivu], van der Houdt 211 (BR!, holo.)
Bidens isokoensis Sherff [family COMPOSITAE], in Amer. J. Bot. 42, 6: 565 (1955). Type: Zambia, Isoko Valley, Richards 1108 (K!, holo., SRGH!, iso.)
Bidens drummondii Wild [family COMPOSITAE], in Kirkia 6: 17 (1967). Type: Zambia, 11 km W of Chizera, Drummond & Rutherford-Smith 7204 (SRGH!, holo., M!, iso.)
Information
Annual herb to 1 m high; stem erect, pilose to glabrous. Leaves pinnatipartite or bi-pinnatipartite, 3–20 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, segments ovate to linear (narrower in upper leaves), sparsely pilose on both surfaces; petiole to 7 cm long. Capitula terminal, in lax corymbose cymes; peduncle to 13 cm long; involucre 8–10 mm long; outer phyllaries 8–10, pilose, inner phyllaries brown, ± 8, with yellow margins, pilose; paleae 8–10 mm long, glabrous. Ray florets golden yellow to orange, neuter, 8, rays 10–30x2–12 mm; disc florets yellow. Achenes black or dark brown, broadly obovoid or orbicular, 6–8 mm long, scabrid; aristae 2, to 2 mm long, antrorsely barbed, rarely absent.
Range
DISTR. T 4
Altitude range
± 1828 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mpanda District Mwese Hill, May 1975, Kahurananga, Kibuwa & Mungai 2609!
Distribution (external)
Cameroon
Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Notes
USES.None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Least concern (LC)

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