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Coreopsis monticola

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Identification
Bidens mannii T.G.J.Rayner [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Bidens monticola (hook.f.) Mesfin. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Mesfin, T., Coreopsis glaucescens Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE ] Coreopsis monticola (Hook.f.) Oliv. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel,
Related name
  • Bidens elliotii
  • Verbesina not on sheet
  • Bidens robustior
  • Verbesina monticola
  • Coreopsis glaucescens
  • Coreopsis elliotii
  • Bidens mannii
  • Coreopsis monticola
  • Bidens monticola
  • Bidens kilimandscharica
  • Prestinaria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for COREOPSIS monticola O. & H. [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
COREOPSIS monticola O. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
Verbesina monticola Hook. f. [family COMPOSITAE], (Prestinaria) in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vii. p. 200.
Information
A nearly simple erect rigid quite glabrous herb, 1–3 ft. high. Leaves ovate in outline, including the petiole of 1/4– 3/4 in. about 2 by 1 1/2 in., tripartite with the middle partition deeply 3–5-fid, lobes ovate, incise-dentate, acute. Capitula hemispherical, 3/4– 5/6 in. diam., on peduncles 1/2–3 in., in a corymbose cyme. Involucral bracts glabrous, shining; outer rather longer, linear, rather obtuse but with a callous tip; inner oval-oblong, rounded at apex. Achenes compressed, linear-oblong, setulose on the margin and apex, not winged, 1/5 in. long. Aristæ rigid, filiform, shorter than the achene, scabrid.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountains, Mann!

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