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Dendrosenecio battiscombei

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Identification
Dendrosenecio battiscombei (R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr.) E.B.Knox [family ASTERACEAE ]
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Entry for Dendrosenecio battiscombei (R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr.) E.B.Knox [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
Dendrosenecio battiscombei (R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr.) E.B.Knox [family COMPOSITAE], in Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 19: 243 (1993). Type: Kenya, Mt Kenya, Fries & Fries 1304 (UPS!, holo., BM!, K!, S!, iso.)
Senecio battiscombei R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr. [family COMPOSITAE], in Svensk Bot. Tidskr 16: 334 (1922); A.V.P.: 229, 357 (1957); K.T.S.: 159, pl. 11 (1961)
Senecio aberdaricus R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr. [family COMPOSITAE], in Svensk Bot. Tidskr 16: 331 (1922). Type: Kenya, Nyandarua/Aberdares, Sattima, Fries & Fries 2436a (UPS!, lecto., BM!, BR!, S!, isolecto., chosen by Hedberg)
Senecio johnstonii (R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr.) Mabb. subsp. battiscombei [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 28: 86 (1973)
Dendrosenecio johnstonii (R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr.) B.Nord. subsp. battiscombei [family COMPOSITAE], in Opera Bot. 44: 43 (1978)
Senecio johnstonii var. battiscombei [family COMPOSITAE], ; C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 891 (1986); K.T.S.L.: 561 (1994)
Information
Upright, polycarpic plant to 7 m tall, with trunk to 35 cm in diameter; pith to 4 cm in diameter; stem with densely packed leaf-rosettes of 25–75 leaves, with no internode elongation, cloaked with marcescent foliage or at least covered with retained leaf-bases for 1–3 m below the leaf-rosettes. Infrequent reproduction yields sparsely branched, spreading plants that rarely exceed four reproductive cycles. Leaf lamina oblanceolate, to 78 cm long and 21 cm wide, hair cushion present on upper leaf-base, sometimes extending along upper midvein, lower surface glabrous or with a sparse to dense pubescence, villose along lower midvein. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal to 120 cm tall, 80 cm in diameter; capitula presented horizontally. Ray florets 6–17; to 20 mm long; disc florets 20–90.
Range
DISTR. K 3, 4 endemic to Nyandarua/Aberdares and Mt Kenya
Altitude range
2950–4000 m
Distribution
KENYA Nyandarua/Aberdares, Mt Satima, June 1932, Dale K 2848!KENYA Mt Kenya, Dec. 1931, Rammell 2676! & Dec. 1943, Bally 3358!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area CONSERVATION Protected in the National Park; least concern (LC) There is considerable variation in leaf morphology throughout the elevation range on Nyandarua/Aberdares, with plants from the lower elevations having smaller, less pubescent leaves. Additionally, the leaf of Schmitt 692 has a cordate lamina and is constricted below to form a pseudo-petiole, but otherwise conforms to D. battiscombei.

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