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Crassocephalum sarcobasis

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Name

Identification
Crassocephalum sarcobasis (DC.) S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Torre,A.R., Crassocephalum diversifolium Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Crassocephalum sarcobasis
  • Solanecio angulatus
  • Gynura sarcobasis
  • Crassocephalum diversifolium

Flora

Entry for Crassocephalum rubens (DC.) C.Jeffrey & Beentje var. sarcobasis [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 rubens (DC.) C.Jeffrey & Beentje var. sarcobasis [family COMPOSITAE], comb. nov. Type: Madagascar, without locality, Bojer s.n. (G-DC, holo.)
Gynura sarcobasis DC. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. 6: 300 (1838)
Crassocephalum sarcobasis (DC.) S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 50: 211 (1912); Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 650, fig. 201/1 (1985); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 907 (1986); Blundell, Wild Flow. E. Afr.: fig. 678 (1987); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 349 (1991); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 219, t. 92 (1994)
Information
Leaves usually rather broadly 2–8-lobed. Capitula 1–12; involucre cylindrical, 8–12 mm long, 2.5–7 mm in diameter; bract of calyculus 5–17; phyllaries 13–25, commonly 13; disc florets purple, mauve, magenta or pink, very rarely blue.
Range
DISTR. U 3; K 2–7; T 1–8
Distribution
KENYA W Suk District km 67 on Kitale–Moroto road, Suk scarp, Oct. 1952, Verdcourt 746!KENYA Ravine District 6 km N of Eldama Ravine on Torongo road, Oct. 1981, Gilbert & Mesfin 6432!KENYA Nairobi, Thompson’s estate, June 1930, Napier 192a!TANZANIA Mbulu District Pienaar’s Heights, May 1962, Polhill & Paulo 2345!TANZANIA Dodoma District Dodoma–Iringa road, Matumbulu reservoir, July 1974, Mhoro & Backeus s.n.!TANZANIA Iringa District edge of Lake Ngwazi, May 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 2006!UGANDA Mbale District Kapcherwa, Sep. 1954, Lind 282! & Sebei, Kyesoweri, Oct. 1955, Norman 298! & Bulago, Bugishu, Aug. 1932, A.S. Thomas 335!
Distribution (external)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Ethiopia
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Madagascar
Comoro Is
Yemen
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area CONSERVATION Least concern (LC) C. sarcobasis is brought into synonymy here. The two taxa are very close but there seem to be consistent, if minor, differences.

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