Compilation
Echinops claessensii
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Name
Identification
Echinops claessensii De Wild. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Echinops amplexicaulis Oliv. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Lisowski St., 1989
Related name
- Echinops claessensii
- Echinops amplexicaulis
Flora
Entry for ECHINOPS amplexicaulis Oliv. [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 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
ECHINOPS amplexicaulis Oliv. [family COMPOSITAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., London 29: 101, t. 67 (1873); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 431 (1877); F.P.S. 3: 25 (1956); F.P.U.: 66 (1962); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 291 (1963); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 22: 115 (1968); Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 672 (1985); Blundell, Wild Flow. E. Afr.: 165, pl. 519 (1987); Mesfin & Berhanu in Mitt. Inst. Bot. Hamburg 23b: 612 (1990); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 576 (1991); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 227, t. 96 (1994); Mesfin in K.B. 52: 883, fig. 118 (1997). Type: Tanzania, Biharamulo District, Usui, Grant 141 (K!, holo.)
ECHINOPS neumannii O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 38: 210 (1906); Mattf. in E.J. 59, Beibl. 133: 49 (1924). Type: Ethiopia, Gofa, Neumann 201 (B†, holo.)
ECHINOPS korobori De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot., sér. 5, 2: 216, t. 63 (1907). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Chief Koroboro’s area, Seret 617 (BR!, holo.)
ECHINOPS claessensii De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], Pl. Bequaert. 5: 447 (1932). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Blukwa, Claessens 1459 (BR!, holo.)
ECHINOPS sidamensis Cufod. [family COMPOSITAE], in Senck. Biol. 47: 261, t. 9 (1966). Type: Ethiopia, near Yirgalem, Kuls 25 (FR!, holo.)
Information
Perennial herb, 0.9–2.4 m high, erect, spiny; stems from a woody base, usually unbranched, rather woody, leafy throughout, ridged, densely glandular, white-tomentose but glabrescent. Leaves spiny, (ob-)ovate or elliptic in outline, 5–26 cm long, 3–19 cm wide, pinnatifid with 3–4 pairs of broadly triangular spine-tipped lobes (fewer in more distal leaves) and a similar terminal lobe, base cordate-emarginate or semi-amplexicaul, margins spiny (also some spines submarginally on the adaxial surface), green, glandular and initially araneose-tomentose but glabrescent above, densely glandular and white-grey-tomentose beneath, rarely glabrescent. Capitula 37–40 mm long, in dense globose synflorescences 3.5–10 cm in diameter; phyllaries spatulate to lanceolate, 1.2–3.4 cm long, glabrous but the median pectinate. Corolla red or crimson, tube 3–8 mm long, lobes linear, 18–29 mm long, anthers dull red, style red, arms linear, obtuse, shortly hairy in upper third. Achenes obconic, ± 7.5 mm long, 5-ribbed, densely ascending-pilose; pappus of numerous basally united, fringed scales 1.5–2.5 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1–4; K 2, 3, 5; T 1, 2, 4
Altitude range
1000–2750 m
Distribution
KENYA W Suk District Kapenguria, Jan. 1967, Thairu 1!KENYA Uasin Gishu District 13 km SE of Eldoret, Oct. 1971, Gillett 19359!KENYA N Kavirondo District Kaimosi, June 1933, Gilbert Rogers 730!TANZANIA Ngara District Ngara, Nov. 1974, Kanywa 78!TANZANIA Arusha District Pienaars heights S of Babati, May 1989, Pócs & Orban 89157/f!TANZANIA Kigoma District Kasangazi, June 1958, Mahinde HSM 179!UGANDA Karamoja District Mt Morongole, Nov. 1939, A.S. Thomas 3263!UGANDA Bunyoro District 200 km on Kampala–Masindi road, Oct. 1970, Katende 704!UGANDA Mengo District Kakoge, Dec. 1955, Langdale-Brown 1731!
Distribution (external)
; Nigeria
Cameroon
C.A.R
Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Ethiopia
Notes
Purseglove 2089 fromU2, Kigwezi District, Nyakagyeme,seems to be a hybrid between E. amplexicaulis and E. giganteus and was collected with the putative parents (nos. 2088 and 2087 respectively)