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Launaea massauensis

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Name

Identification
Launaea massauensis (Fresen) Sch.Bip. ex Kuntze [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by N. Killian, 1995
Related name
  • Heterachaena massauensis
  • Launaea massauensis

Flora

Entry for LAUNAEA pseudoabyssinica (Chiov.) N. Kilian [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
LAUNAEA pseudoabyssinica (Chiov.) N. Kilian [family COMPOSITAE], in Englera 17: 259 (1997). Type: Eritrea, Mensa, Rora Ualicauè West, Terraciano & Pappi 626 (FT, syn., K!, photo.) & Mt Bizen, Schweinfurth & Riva 2054 (FT, K!, syn.)
Lactuca pseudoabyssinica Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 197 (1904)
Lactuca boranensis Cufod. [family COMPOSITAE], in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. s. 50: 115 (1913). Types: Ethiopia, Mega, Corradi 1736, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1906 (all FT, syn., K!, photo.)
Launaea massauensis [family COMPOSITAE], [sensu C. Jeffrey in K.B. 18: 472 (1966), pro parte, non (Fresen.) Kuntze]
Information
Perennial herb 15–50 cm high, with 1–few leaf rosettes, each with 1–few erect leafy or leafless flowering stems. Rosette leaves lanceolate to spatulate, 3–9 cm long, (0.5–)1–3 cm wide, base semi-amplexicaul, margins sinuate-dentate to pinnatifid; cauline leaves similar, reduced towards inflorescence. Capitula several in monopodial cymes; involucre 7–11 mm long; phyllaries lanceolate, 1–11 mm long. Florets 7–12 per capitulum; corolla yellow, tube 3.6–4.8 mm long, ligule 6.5–9 mm long, 1.5–1.9 mm wide. Achenes 2–3.6 mm long, ribbed; pappus 4–6 mm long, of downy hairs and setae.
Range
DISTR. K 1
Altitude range
900–1950 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Furrole, Sep. 1952, Gillett 13940!
Distribution (external)
; Sudan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Somalia
Egypt
Arabia
Pakistan

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