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Dendrosenecio elgonensis

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Identification
Senecio gardneri Cotton [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Dendrosenecio elgonensis (T.C.E.Fr.) E.B.Knox [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Senecio gardneri
  • Dendrosenecio elgonensis

Flora

Entry for Dendrosenecio elgonensis (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 elgonensis (T.C.E.Fr.) E.B.Knox [family COMPOSITAE], in Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 19: 244 (1993). Type: Uganda, Mt Elgon, Dümmer 3382 (B†, holo., K!, UPS!, US!, iso.)
Information
Upright, polycarpic plant to 8 m tall, with trunk to 50 cm in diameter; pith 2.5–5 cm in diameter; stem with densely packed leaf-rosettes of 30–50 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. Branching sparse to dense; spreading. Leaf lamina elliptic or cordate, to 97 cm long and 32 cm wide, with lower portion of leaf constricted, hair cushion present on upper leaf-base, sometimes extending along upper midvein, lower surface glabrous or with a dense indumentum, villose along lower midvein. Inflorescence broadly paniculate to 120 cm tall, 80 cm in diameter; capitula pendulous or presented horizontally. Ray florets 11–13, to 24 mm long, or absent; disc florets 40–130.

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