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Nicolasia coronata

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Nicolasia coronata Wild [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Lisowski St.,
Related name
  • Pluchea unrecorded
  • Nicolasia coronata

Flora

Entry for NICOLASIA coronata Wild [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
NICOLASIA coronata Wild [family COMPOSITAE], in Kirkia 12: 16, 32 (1980); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 30, t. 4 (1989). Type: Zambia, Mbala District, Kambole Escarpment, Sanane 619 (SRGH, holo., K!, iso.)
Information
Perennial herb 50 cm high; rhizome short, with fleshy roots; base of stem and root crown with dense long woolly hairs. Leaves mostly near base in a dense tuft, linear, 10–17 cm long, less than 2 mm wide, base widened and clasping, margins strongly revolute, apex callous-tipped, glabrous. Capitula in racemes or panicles; stalks of individual capitula to 9 cm long; involucre ± 12 mm in diameter; phyllaries 6-seriate, the outer spreading to recurving, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2–12 mm long, pilose, purple-tipped. Florets mauve to pale lilac; outer florets filamentous, to 6 mm long; disc florets tubular, 7 mm long, with short setose lobes. Achenes cylindric, 1.6 mm long, pilose; pappus of 12–16 white setae to 6 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 4
Altitude range
± 1600 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mpanda District 63 km on Uvinza–Mpanda road, May 1997, Bidgood et al. 4080!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia (Mbala area)
Notes
This plant looks like a monocot, e.g. Eriocaulon, when not in flower.East African material differs slightly from the type and most F.Z. area material in having unbranched inflorescences and slightly darker, larger heads.

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