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Name

Identification
Launaea nana (Baker) Chiov. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kilian,N., Sonchus elliotianus Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sonchus rarifolius
  • Sonchus nolaceus
  • Sonchus elliotianus
  • Lactuca nana
  • Launaea nana
  • Lactuca stenocephala
  • Launaea rarifolia
Common name
  • apuifa (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for LAUNAEA nana (Baker) Chiov. [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 nana (Baker) Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], Result. Sc. Miss. Stef.-Paoli, Coll. Bot. 1: 108 (1916); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 18: 466 (1966); Lawalrée, Dethier & Gilissen in F.A.C. Compositae: Cichorioideae: 18 (1986); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 217, t. 40b (1992); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 229 (1994); N. Kilian in Englera 17: 134 (1997). Types: Nigeria, Lagos interior, Rowland (K!, syn.) & Mozambique, Namuli, Makua country, Last (K, syn., but missing since 1966)
Lactuca nana Baker [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1895: 17 (1895)
Sonchus nanus O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in P.O.A. C: 421 (1895), non Sond. (1865), nom. illegit. Types: Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot 5051 (B†, syn.); Nigeria, Lagos, Rowland (B†, syn.); Togo, Misa Heights, Baumann 131 (B†, syn.); Tanzania, Shinyanga District, Usule [Usula], Usiha, Fischer 359 (B†, syn.); Congo (Kinshasa), Kwango, Büttner 458 (B†, syn.); Mozambique, Beira, Braga 64 (B†, syn.); Angola, Malandsche, Teucsz 260 (B†, syn.)
Sonchus elliotianus Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 623 (1898); R.E. Fr. in Acta Horti Berg. 8: 115 (1924); S. Moore in J.B. 65, suppl. 2: 67 (1927); F.P.S. 3: 53 (1956); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 296 (1963). Type as for Launaea nana (Baker) Chiov.
Launea elliotiana (Hiern) Boulos [family ], in Bot. Notis. 115: 58 (1962)
Information
Acaulescent perennial herb; rootstock vertical and fleshy. Leaves in rosette, obovate to spatulate, 3–19(–37) cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, margins denticulate, apex rounded to acute, glabrous. Inflorescence domed, of several short flowering shoots, densely branched, < 15 cm long; involucre 11–16 mm long; phyllaries 1–20 mm long, with a minute hair-tuft at apex. Corolla yellow fading to purple, tube 5–6(–9) mm long, ligule 4–6 mm long, 1.2–1.4 mm wide. Achenes red-brown, 3.3–5.5 mm long, 5-angular, glabrous; pappus of setae 9–14 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 3; K 3, 4, 7; T 2–4, 6–8 from Sierra Leone to Sudan, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Altitude range
450–2600 m
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Elgon, Jan. 1931, Lugard & Lugard 518! & Kiminini, Apr. 1971, Tweedie 3946!KENYA Nairobi District Nairobi, Thika Road House, Jan. 1931, Verdcourt 423!TANZANIA Lushoto District Ubili–Monga, Mar. 1941, Greenway 6126!TANZANIA Ufipa District Malonje, Nov. 1949, Bullock 1888!TANZANIA Mbeya District Mbogo Mt, Nov. 1966, Gillett 17643!UGANDA Acholi District Chua, above Lototuru [Lututuru], Feb. 1938, Eggeling 3496!UGANDA Teso District Serere, Dec. 1931, Chandler 179!
Notes
“One of the first flowers to come up in burnt grass” ( Lugard, on Mt Elgon).  Kilian designates a neotype but there is a sheet at Kew collected by Rowland in Nigeria.

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