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Nicolasia quinqueseta

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Name

Identification
Nicolasia quinqueseta O.Hoffm. ex Thell. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Nicolasia nitens (O.Hoffm.) Eyles [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Nicolasia quinqueseta
  • Nicolasia nitens

Flora

Entry for NICOLASIA nitens var. nitens [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 nitens var. nitens [family COMPOSITAE]
Pluchea nitens O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 20: 226 (1894); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 208 (1994)
Nicolasia quinqueseta Thell. [family COMPOSITAE], in Viert. Natf. Ges. Zürich 68: 444 (1923); Merxm. in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 2: 9 (1954). Type: Namibia, Damaraland, Ondekeremba, Dinter 455 (Z, holo.)
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial herb 15–75 cmhigh, from a woody rootstock to 20 cm long, much branched. Leaf apex attenuate and spinulose. Capitula 9–15 mm long; phyllaries pale green proximally, mauve distally with darker midrib and apex.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 3, 4, 6, 7; T 1, 2, 5, 7
Altitude range
(300–)600–1800 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Sibiloi National Park, Fora, July 1981, F. Brown 14!;TANZANIA Musoma District Engari Nanyuki, Nov. 1956, Greenway 9039!;KENYA Masai District Marandare R. Valley, Oct. 1976, Kuchar & Msafiri 5266!KENYA Tana R. District Kora, 32 km W of research camp, May 1983, Mungai et al. 284/83!TANZANIA Mbulu District Lake Manyara National Park, S of Msasa R., Feb. 1964, Greenway & Kanuri 11233!;TANZANIA Dodoma District 17 km E of Kilimatindi, Apr. 1988, Bidgood et al. 1184!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Namibia
Notes
Plants from central Tanzania look quite different from the 'normal' nitens, and at first I felt they represented a subspecies or variety. They have generally wider leaves, thicker main stems and stalks of capitula (not filiform), and larger heads with many more florets (10–18 mm across the florets, rather than 4–8 mm). But material from Zimbabwe shows characters from both forms, and therefore I feel I cannot separate them taxonomically.

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