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Kleinia schwartzii

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Name

Identification
Kleinia schwartzii L.E.Newton [family ASTERACEAE ]
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  • Kleinia schwartzii

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Entry for Kleinia schwartzii L.E.Newton [family ]
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
Kleinia schwartzii L.E.Newton [family ], in Cact. Succ. Journ. (USA) 65, 5: 287 (1993). Type: from a plant flowering in cultivation based on material collected in Northern Frontier District, Marsabit, Burola Mt, Schwartz & Powys 73K (K!, holo.)
Senecio mweroensis (L.E.Newton) G.D.Rowley forma schwartzii [family COMPOSITAE], in Bradleya 14: 83 (1996)
Information
Succulent herb to 70 cm high; stem erect, succulent and up to 25 mm in diameter, green with 3 reddish lines below each node, the base enlarging and becoming tuberous and to 60 mm in diameter. Leaves densely set, semi-terete with adaxial groove, to 8 cm long, 3–4 mm in diameter, green, glabrous. Capitula solitary or up to 3, stalk of individual heads 9–42 cm long; bracts on inflorescence linear, 5–8 mm long; involucre 15–19 mm long, 15–20 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus absent; phyllaries 19–20, 15–19 mm long, 2–5 mm wide. Florets red, the tube 15 mm long and yellow-green at base, lobes 3.5 mm long. Achenes unknown, but ovary 3 mm long, hirsute; pappus 10–14 mm long.
Range
DISTR. K 1 possibly in Ethiopia
Altitude range
altitude not given, ± 1000 m?
Distribution
KENYA Plant flowering in cultivation based on material collected inKENYA Northern Frontier District Marsabit, Burola Mt, Oct. 1986, Schwartz & Powys 73K!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Data deficient; known from only the type, but this area is undercollected; at least vulnerable (VU-D2)

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