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Inula paniculata

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Identification
Inulaster macrophyllus Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Inula paniculata (Klatt) Burtt Davy [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Inula bequaertii
  • Inula unrecorded
  • Inula subscaposa
  • Monactinocephalus paniculatus
  • Inula paniculata
  • Inula macrophylla
  • Inulaster macrophyllus
  • Varthemia kotschyi
  • Inulaster kotschyi
  • Inula mannii
  • Vernonia unrecorded
  • Inula bequaerti

Flora

Entry for INULA paniculata (Klatt) Burtt Davy [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
INULA paniculata (Klatt) Burtt Davy [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1935: 570 (1935); Wild in Kirkia 12: 40 (1980); Maquet in Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 3: 596 (1985); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 42 (1989). Type: South Africa, Houtboschberg, Rehmann 6068 (Z, holo., K!, iso.)
Inulaster macrophyllus A. Rich. [family ], in Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 399 (1848); Sch. Bip. in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.: 307 (1867). Type: Ethiopia, Selleuda [Scholada], Schimper 912 (K!, P!, syn.) & Semaiata [Semajate] 938 (K!, P!, syn.)
Inula macrophylla (A. Rich.) Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.: 285 (1867); Oliv. in F.T.A. 3: 358 (1877), nom. illegit ., non Kar. & Kir (1841)
Monactinocephalus paniculatus Klatt [family COMPOSITAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 4: 474 (1896)
Inula bequaertii De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], Pl. Bequaert. 5: 81 (1929). Syntypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Beni, Bequaert 3421 (BR!, syn.) & Rutshuru, Bequaert 6261 (BR!, syn.)
Inula decipiens E.A. Bruce [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 2: 33 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 37 (1956); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 213, t. 88 (1994). Types as for Inulaster macrophyllus
Information
Sturdy biennial or perennial rosette herb, the solitary flowering stem 0.6–2.4 m high, woody at base, unbranched except for the inflorescence; stem pubescent and scabrid. Leaves of two kinds: radical leaves petiolate, the petiole 5–10 cm long, the blade elliptic or oblanceolate, 30–60 cm long, 7–12.5 cm wide, base cuneate and decurrent, margins coarsely and irregularly dentate, apex acute, scabrid above with tubercle-based hairs, pubescent to tomentose beneath; cauline leaves smaller and diminishing in size upwards, the proximal sessile, the more distal with cordate, auriculate and semi-amplexicaul base, otherwise similar to radical leaves, 2–32 cm long, 1–19 cm wide. Capitula 5–9 mm long, heterogamous, in fairly dense terminal corymbs arranged in their turn in large leafy corymbs or panicles; stalks of individual capitula 1–3 mm long; phyllaries linear-lanceolate, 2–5(–8) mm long, acute, the outer pubescent, the inner ciliate. Florets yellow; outer florets few, tube filiform, 3–3.6 mm long and distally glandular, lobes 0.2–0.4 mm long and glandular, style 3.2–4.2 mm long; inner florets many, tube narrowly infundibuliform with a slightly widened base, 3.3–4.2 mm long, lobes 0.4–0.5 mm long and glandular, anthers 1.7–1.8 mm long, style 4–5 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 1.2–2 mm long, sparsely pilose; pappus 2.5–4 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2–4; K 3, 5, 6; T 2–4 from W Africa to Ethiopia to N South Africa
Altitude range
950–2500 m
Distribution
UGANDA Ankole District Igara, Mar. 1939, Purseglove 621!;KENYA Trans-Nzoia District NE Elgon, Nov. 1957, Tweedie 1466!;TANZANIA Masai District 10 km W of Ngorongoro Crater, July 1957, Bally 11611!;UGANDA Mengo District Naguru Hill near Kampala, Jan. 1963, Tallantire 607!;UGANDA Teso District Serere, Aug. 1932, Chandler 862!KENYA Kericho District Ngoina Forest Reserve, Nov. 1971, Magogo 1503!;KENYA Nakuru District Tinderet Forest near Malaget Forest Station, Nov. 1967, Perdue & Kibuwa 9199!TANZANIA Moshi District Engare Nairobi, June 1944, Greenway 6845!;TANZANIA Lushoto District Sangerawe, Oct. 1929, Greenway 1780!
Notes
Contrary to what has been reported so far in literature, this species has heterogamous capitula; but the outer, female, florets resemble the hermaphrodite ones and may be difficult to distinguish. ADDENDUM/ERRATUM (published in Compositae - Part 3, 2005): Muasya et al. collected Inula paniculata in K 4;

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