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Scabiosa columbaria

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Name

Identification
Scabiosa columbaria L. [family DIPSACACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Scabiosa columbaria
  • Scabiosa decurrens
  • Scabiosa levieri
  • Scabiosa calyptocarpa
  • Scabiosa crassicaulis
  • Scabiosa crassicaulia
  • Scabiosa buekiana
  • Scabiosa verbascifolia
  • Scabiosa pyrenaica
  • Scabiosa austro-africana
  • Scabiosa columnae
  • Scabiosa acutiflora
  • Scabiosa ceratophylla
  • Scabiosa ochroleuca
  • Scabiosa portae
  • Scabiosa patens
  • Scabiosa pallida
  • Scabiosa atropurpurea
  • Scabiosa anthemifolia
  • Scabiosa polonica
  • Scabiosa ambigua

Flora

Entry for SCABIOSA columbaria L. [family DIPSACACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1968) Author: D. M. Napper
Names
SCABIOSA columbaria L. [family DIPSACACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 99 (1753); Coulter, Mem. Dips.: 38 (1823) & in DC. Prodr. 4: 658 (1830); A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 368 (1847); Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 252 (1877); Engl., Hochgeb. Trop. Afr.: 404 (1892); P.O.A. C: 396 (1895); Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. 1: 518 (1898); A.V.P.: 184 (1957); E.P.A.: 1030 (1965). Type: Sweden, Gotland, Linnaeus (LINN, hole, K, photo.!)
SCABIOSA columbaria Engl. var. robusta [family DIPSACACEAE], P.O.A. C: 396 (1895), nomen nudum
SCABIOSA columbaria Engl. var. angusticuneata [family DIPSACACEAE], in E.J. 19, Beibl. 47: 49 (1894). Types: Tanganyika, Kilimanjaro, Volkens 918 & 1199 (both K, isosyn.!)
Information
Perennial herb, 0.15–1.2 m. high, with erect branched pubescent stems, markedly heterophyllous. Radical leaves sessile, entire or deeply lobed in the lower part with the margin toothed or crenate above, glabrous or pubescent; lower stem-leaves deeply pinnatifid, rarely bipinnate; upper stem-leaves deeply pinnatipartite, smaller and simply pinnate or entire. Heads (2–)2.5– 3.5(–4) cm. in diameter, on long peduncles. Involucral bracts lanceolate, acute, varying from half the length of the marginal flowers to exceeding them. Bracts of the receptacle linear-lanceolate, acute, 3–5 mm. long, pubescent above. Involucel pubescent, becoming 8-furrowed and (including the limb) 4–5 mm. long in fruit. Calyx small, pilose, with bristles 3–6 mm. long. Corolla lilac, mauve or, rarely, pinkish, 5–20 mm. long, larger and more unequally lobed in the marginal flowers. Fig. 3/5, p. 8.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; Kl, 3–5; T2
Altitude range
2100–4100 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mt. Nyiru, 30 Dec. 1955, J. Adamson 555!KENYA Kisumu-Londiani District Tinderet Forest Reserve, 14 July 1949, Maas Geesteranus 5494!KENYA Aberdare Mts., Sattima, 13 Mar. 1922, Fries 2349!TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Oldeani Mt., Jan. 1935, Moreau 38! & Mt. Hanang, 26 Dec. 1929, B. D. Burlt 2266!TANGANYIKA Kilimanjaro, 22 Feb. 1934, Greenway 3747!UGANDA Karamoja District Mt. Moroto, Feb. 1936, Eggeling 2858!UGANDA Elgon, Apr. 1930, Liebenberg 1627! & 12 Nov. 1933, Tothill 2404!
Distribution (external)
southern Africa
Ethiopia
Europe
the Near East
Notes
Despite the high degree of variation to be observed in the East African material the gradation of forms is so intricate that separation into infraspecific taxa has proved impossible without further investigations into ecological and other fields such as are beyond the scope of this Flora.

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