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Echinops longifolius

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Name

Identification
Echinops longifolius A.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Echinops longifolius
Common name
  • lunawefö (CV) (GHANA, AKAN-BRONG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • boginaahi (Taylor) (NIGERIA, FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • guùluúlùn zoómoó (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • zé-ganó (FNH) (NIGERIA, CHAMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nyaalelhi = (?) plant of the cattle heron (MM) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Adamawa)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • àgbẹ́ (Dawodu) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • boginahi (ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kasawuli bunku (Andoh) (GHANA, GUANG-GONJA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for ECHINOPS longifolius A. Rich. [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 longifolius A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 452, t. 61 (1848); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 431 (1877); F.P.S. 3: 25 (1956); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 290, fig. 264 (1963) pro parte, excl. fig. 264; C. Jeffrey in K.B. 22: 120 (1968); Mesfin & Berhanu in Mitt. Inst. Bot. Hamburg 23b: 618, t. 4a (1990); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr.: 581 (1991); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 227 (1994); Mesfin in K.B. 52: 895 (1997). Type: Ethiopia, Kouaieta, Quartin Dillon (P!, holo.)
ECHINOPS luckii R.E. Fr. [family COMPOSITAE], in Acta Horti Berg. 8: 43, t. 2 (1923). Type: Kenya, Kisumu–Londiani District, Lumbwa, Fries & Fries 2850 (UPS, holo.)
ECHINOPS luckii Mattf. var. pinnatiloba [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 59, Beibl. 133: 54 (1924). Type: Rwanda, Mpororo, Mildbraed 309 (B†, holo.)
ECHINOPS schweinfurthii Mattf. [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 59, Beibl. 133: 54 (1924). Syntypes: Ethiopia, Gallabat, Matamma, Schweinfurth 480 (B†, syn., BM!, K!, isosyn.), 481, 482 (B†, syn., BM!, P, WU, isosyn.)
Information
Perennial herb 20–100 cm high; stems erect or occasionally flopping over, arising from a creeping rootstock, white-tomentose, glabrescent, minutely glandular, branching to form a rounded bushy crown. Leaves spiny, shortly pinnatifid to pinnatisect, linear in outline, 6–30 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, base semi-amplexicaul with spiny auricles, with numerous triangular-lanceolate spine-tipped lateral lobes with attenuate apices, thinly white-araneose but glabrescent above, white- or grey-tomentose beneath. Capitula 17–22 mm long, in globose terminal synflorescences 3–6 cm in diameter, with basal bristles to 15 mm long; phyllaries lanceolate (the outermost spatulate), 10–18.5 mm long, the outer with spinescent acumen, the inner truncate. Corolla pale blue or white, tube 6–12 mm long, lobes 6–7 mm long. Achenes 6 mm long, ascending-pilose; pappus of narrow laciniate scales 1–1.5 mm long. Fig. 10.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 3; K 3; T 1
Altitude range
900–2100 m
Distribution
KENYA Uasin Gishu District Ol Dane Sapuk, May 1951, G.R. Williams 178! & Moiben, Jan. 1967, Kerr in Tweedie 3403!KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Dee Gully, Kitale, June 1969, Tweedie 3652!TANZANIA Bukoba District 8 km S of Nyakahanga, Oct. 1931, Haarer 2256!TANZANIA Buha District Kivumba–Muhorro, Feb. 1926, Peter 37663!UGANDA Acholi District Pailyech near Pakiri, May 1971, Okello-Degaouchii 48!UGANDA W Nile District Arua, Nov. 1940, Purseglove 1070!UGANDA Teso District Serere, Jan. 1932, Chandler 391!
Distribution (external)
; Mali
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Togo
Benin
Nigeria
Cameroon
C.A.R
Chad
Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Ethiopia

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