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Dendrosenecio cheranganiensis

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Identification
Dendrosenecio cheranganiensis (Cotton & Blakelock) E.B.Knox [family ASTERACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Dendrosenecio cheranganiensis (Cotton & Blakelock) 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 cheranganiensis (Cotton & Blakelock) E.B.Knox [family COMPOSITAE], in Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 19: 243 (1993). Type: Kenya, Cherangani Hills, Dale 3392 (K!, holo., EA!, FT!, iso.)
Information
Upright, polycarpic plant to 6 m tall or ‘dwarfed’ to 1.5 m tall, pith 2–3 cm in diameter; stem with densely packed leaf-rosettes of 40–70 leaves, with no internode elongation, cloaked with marcescent foliage or at least covered with retained leaf-bases for 1–2 m below the leaf-rosettes. Leaf lamina oblanceolate, to 94 cm long and 25 cm wide, hair cushion weakly to strongly developed on upper leaf-base, lower surface glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent, villose along lower midvein. Inflorescence broadly paniculate; capitula presented horizontally. Ray florets 10–15, to 25 mm long; disc florets 35–70.

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