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Crassocephalum montuosum

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Name

Identification
Crassocephalum bumbense S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Crassocephalum montuosum (S.Moore) Milne-Redh. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Torre,A.R.,
Related name
  • Crassocephalum montuosum
  • Crassocephalum bumbense
  • Senecio rufopilosulus
  • Senecio unrecorded
  • Crassocephalum diversifolium
  • Gynura montuosa
  • Senecio butaguensis
  • Senecio montuosus

Flora

Entry for Crassocephalum montuosum (S.Moore) Milne-Redh. [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
Crassocephalum montuosum (S.Moore) Milne-Redh. [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 5: 376 (1951); F.P.S. 3: 21 (1956); Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 652, fig. 202/2 (1985); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 906 (1986); Blundell, Wild Flow. E. Afr.: fig. 361 (1987); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 331, t. 72 (1991); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 219, t. 91 (1994). Type: Kenya, Machakos to Kikuyu, Scott Elliot 6587 (BM!, holo.)
Senecio montuosus S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.L.S. 35: 354 (1902)
Senecio butaguensis Muschl. [family COMPOSITAE], in Z.A.E.: 403 (1911). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Butagu Valley, Mildbraed 2534 (B†, holo., BR!, iso.)
Crassocephalum butaguense (Muschl.) S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 50: 211 (1912)
Gynura lutea Humbert [family COMPOSITAE], in Mem. Soc. Linn. Norm. 25: 122, 302 (1923). Type: Madagascar, Andasibe, Perrier 2928 (P!, K!, SYN.) & Manongarivo, Perrier 3213 (P!, SYN.)
Crassocephalum bumbense S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.L.S. 47: 279 (1925). Type: Angola, Sobato de Bumba, Welwitsch 3687 (BM!, holo.)
Crassocephalum afromontanum R.E.Fr. [family COMPOSITAE], in Acta Hort. Berg. 9: 144, t. 6 (1928). Type: Kenya, Nyandarua/Aberdares, Kinangop, Fries & Fries 2727 (UPS!, holo.)
Senecio rufopilosulus De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], Pl. Bequaert. 5: 116 (1929). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Butagu, Bequaert 3627 (BR!, lecto., chosen by Jeffrey)
Gynura montuosa (S.Moore) Bullock [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1932: 499 (1932)
Senecio afromontanum (R.E.Fr.) Humbert & Staner [family COMPOSITAE], in B.J.B.B. 14: 104 (1936)
Crassocephalum luteum (Humbert) Humbert [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Madag. 189: 836 (1963)
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial herb or soft-wooded shrub, erect or sometimes semi-scandent, rather weak-stemmed, 25–250 cm tall; stems green, sometimes tinged red towards the base, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves sessile, ovate, lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, unlobed to deeply and narrowly pinnately or pinnato-lyrately 2–8-lobed, 5.5–41 cm long, 1.5–22 cm wide, base rounded, cuneate or attenuate and slightly decurrent onto a petaloid base, margins closely sinuate-serrate to coarsely serrate-bidentate, apex acute to obtuse, often ± attenuate, almost glabrous to scattered-pubescent above and beneath especially on veins, ± glabrescent. Capitula numerous in congested terminal corymbs, discoid; stalks of the individual capitula densely pubescent to glabrous; involucre cylindrical, 5.5–10.5 mm long, 2–4 mm in diameter in bud, to 6 mm at anthesis; bracts of calyculus 6–13, linear to lanceolate, 1.5–7 mm long, dark-tipped, glabrous or ciliate-margined; phyllaries 8–22, usually 13–15, green or yellow-green with dark brown or reddish tips, 5–9.5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely shortly pubescent. Disc florets yellow or sometimes orange, corolla 5.5–9.5 mm long, tube glabrous, gradually expanded above the middle, lobes 0.5–1.5 mm long. Achenes 1.7–2.5 mm long, ribbed, shortly sparsely hairy in the grooves; pappus 5–10 mm long. Fig. 126 (page 603).
Range
DISTR. U 1–4; K 1–6; T 1–4, 6, 7 from Nigeria to Ethiopia and S to Angola and Zimbabwe, Madagascar
Altitude range
(360?–)900–3150 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Warges, Dec. 1958, Newbould 3063!KENYA S Nyeri District Mt Kenya, Karute R. 4 km above Castle Forest Station, Jan. 1985, Townsend 2187!KENYA Masai District Nguruman Escarpment, 9 km NE of Entasekera, Sep. 1977, Fayad 191!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, Marangu, May 1961, Machangu 74!TANZANIA Kigoma District Selimwegeru, July 1959, Newbould & Harley 4637!TANZANIA Iringa District Luhega Forest Reserve, Feb. 1996, Frimodt-Møller et al. 95!UGANDA Ankole District Kasyoha-Kitomi Forest Reserve, June 1994, Poulsen et al. 534!UGANDA Toro District Kibale National Park, S of Ngogo Camp, June 1997, Poulsen & Nkuutu 1292!UGANDA Mbale District N Elgon, Sit R., Jan. 1953, Dawkins 785!
Notes
USES. Minor medicinal for infected eyes (Tanner); browsed by donkeys (Glover) CONSERVATION Least concern (LC) Greenway (nr. 8445) observed that on one plant some capitula matured from the centre outwards while others matured from the margins inwards.

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