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Porphyrostemma grantii

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Name

Identification
Porphyrostemma chevalieri (O.Hoffm.) Hutch. & Dalziel [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Porphyrostemma grantii unrecorded [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Porphyrostemma grantii
  • Erigeron unrecorded
  • Porphyrostemma chevalieri

Flora

Entry for PORPHYROSTEMMA Grantii Benth. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
PORPHYROSTEMMA Grantii Benth. [family COMPOSITAE], Oliv. in Linn. Trans. xxix. p. 96, t. 63.
Erigeron?? sp Thoms. [family ], in Speke Journ. App. p. 637.
Information
Erect herb, about 2 ft. high; stem corymbosely branched upwards; branches striate, hispid. Leaves linear or narrowly linear-elliptical, obtusely pointed, mucronate, thinly hispid, denticulate, narrowed towards the slightly clasping sessile base, 2–5 in. long by 1/4– 4/5 in. wide. Capitula hemispherical, 3/4 in. diameter, solitary, on distinct peduncles, terminal and subterminal, purple. Scales of the involucre linear-subulate shaggy. Achenes densely hirsute-pilose with ascending hairs.
Distribution
Nile Land 4° 15′ S. Lat., near Mininga, in moist places, Speke and Grant! salt is extracted from its ashes.

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