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Helichrysum plantaginifolium

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Identification
Helichrysum plantaginifolium C.H.Wright [family COMPOSITAE ] Helichrysum nudifolium (L.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Helichrysum nudifolium
  • Helichrysum plantaginifolium

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM nudifolium var. nudifolium [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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
HELICHRYSUM nudifolium var. nudifolium [family COMPOSITAE]
Gnaphalium nudifolium L. [family COMPOSITAE], Pl. Rar. Afr.: 19 (1760); Sp. Pl. ed. 2: 1196 (1763)
Gnaphalium plantagineum Burm.f. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. Fl. Cap.: 25 (1768), non L.
Anaxeton nudifolium (L.) Gaertn. [family COMPOSITAE], Fruct. & Sem. 2: 407 (1791)
Lepiscline nudifolia (L.) Cass. [family ], Dict. Sci. Nat. 26: 50 (1823)
Helichrysum leiopodium DC. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. 6: 200 (1838). Type: South Africa, Cape, between Kei and Bashee Rivers, Drege 5742 (G-DC., lecto.)
Helichrysum gerberifolium A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 425 (1848); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 352 (1877) (both as gerberaefolium); O. Hoffm. in P.O.A. C: 411 (1895); Moeser in E.J. 44: 263 (1910); Hilliard, F.S.A. 33, 7 (2): 230 (1983); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 211 (1994); Mesfin & T. Reilly in D.J.N. Hind et al. (eds), Adv. Comp. Syst.: 431 (1995). Type: Ethiopia, near Adwa, Scholoda, Schimper 203 (P!, holo., BM, K!, iso.)
Helichrysum coriaceum Harv. [family COMPOSITAE], in Harv. & Sond., Fl. Cap. 3: 239 (1865); Moeser in E.J. 44: 264 (1910); Maquet in Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 3: 610, fig. 184/2 (1985); Hilliard, F.S.A. 33, 7 (2): 232 (1983); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 107, t. 19/f-j (1989). Type: South Africa, Transvaal, Magaliesberg, Zeyher 880 (K!, lecto., BM, S, isolecto.)
Helichrysum plantaginifolium C.H. Wright [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1901: 123 (1901); Moeser in E.J. 44: 267 (1910). Type: Malawi, Namasi, Cameron 6 (? K, not found)
Helichrysum ruwenzoriense S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.L.S. 35: 338 (1902). Type: Uganda, Ruwenzori, Scott Elliot 7864 (BM!, holo.)
Helichrysum velatum Moeser [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 44: 264 (1910). Syntypes: Tanzania, Bukoba District, Itara, 1907, Mildbraed 170 (B†, syn.); Rwanda, Ruwenzori, Grant Stairs 29 (B†, syn.) & Mt Niansa, 1700 m, Kandt 53 (B†, syn.)
Helichrysum nudifolium (DC.) Moeser var. leiopodium [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 44: 266 (1910); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 264 (1963)
Information
Rootstock crowned with old fibrous leaf-bases, woolly or with a little brown wool hidden in the axils; stems solitary or several. Leaves thin to coriaceous, petiolate, in the radical leaves the (pseudo-)petiole 3–13 cm long with narrow leaf margins (pseudopetiole), blade mucronate, with a skin-like layer of tomentum which flakes off to show a glabrous surface above, or minutely puberulous; in cauline leaves petiole absent, the blade sessile, broad-based and clasping, loosely tomentose. Phyllaries pale brown or yellow. Florets 18–70, tube 2–4.3 mm long, anthers 1.5–2 mm long. 
Range
DISTR. U 1–4; K 1–6; T 1–4, 7, 8
Altitude range
(600–)1000–2750 m
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Lonyili, Apr. 1960, J. Wilson 990!;KENYA Northern Frontier District Sirwan, Jan. 1959, Newbould 3391!;TANZANIA Bukoba District Ruiga Forest reserve, Sep. 1970, Ruffo 399!;UGANDA Masaka District Bukoto, Kakinga R., May 1972, Lye 6830! & 3 km N of Sanje, May 1971, Lye & Katende 6065!KENYA Nakuru District 5 km SE of Londiani, Dec. 1967, Perdue & Kibuwa 9272!;KENYA Nyeri District Zawadi Estate, May 1974, Faden, Faden & Evans 74/581!TANZANIA Arusha District Songe Hill, Feb. 1969, Richards 24174!;TANZANIA Rungwe District Livingstone Mts, Bumbigi–Kitulo trail, Feb. 1991, Gereau & Kayombo 4076!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Ethiopia
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Notes
I have not seen outer/female florets in the capitula of this taxon (outer florets 0–30, tube filiform, 4.4–4.5 mm long), as reported by Richard and Mesfin & Reilly. East African material seems uniformly homogamous.Plants with yellow phyllaries have been named H. nudifolium s.s, and those with brown phyllaries H. gerberifolium/H. coriaceum. Supposedly associated characters such as the apex of the phyllaries and their smoothness, do not hold true when many specimens are examined; no other characters were found; and intermediates are many. There is no linkage with geography either, and I have come to the conclusion the taxa are synonymous and the species is variable for several characters.

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