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Solanecio biafrae

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Solanecio biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE]
Type of Senecio nandensis S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE]
Solanecio biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE]
Solanecio biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE]
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Name

Identification
Senecio biafrae Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Hutchinson & Dalziel, Crassocephalum biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by M-R., E., Solanecio biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Crassocephalum biafrae
  • Senecio biafrae
  • Senecio gabonicus
  • Solanecio biafrae

Flora

Entry for Solanecio biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey [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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Solanecio biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 41: 922 (1986). Type: Cameroon, Mt Cameroon, Mann 1325 (K!, holo.)
Senecio biafrae Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], F.T.A. 3: 420 (1877)
Crassocephalum biafrae (Oliv. & Hiern) S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 50: 211 (1912)
Information
Scrambling subsucculent herb, ‘very high’; stems glabrous. Leaves petiolate; blade triangular-subhastate or narrowly so or saggitate, 2.2–9 cm long, 1.3–6.2 cm wide, base weakly cordate or subtruncate and shortly decurrent onto the petiole, margins remotely sinuate-paucidentate in lower half, apex ± attenuate, acute and apiculate, glabrous; petiole slender, glabrous, exauriculate, 0.8–5.5 cm long. Capitula discoid, numerous in terminal loose thyrses of stalked congested subumbelliform corymbs; stalks of the individual capitula short, shortly sparsely pubescent; involucre cylindrical, 7–10 mm long, 2–4 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 2–4, lax, glabrous or with a few marginal hairs, 1.5–3 mm long; phyllaries 8, green, glabrous, 6.5–10 mm long. Ray florets absent; disc florets pale yellow, corolla 6–8.5 mm long, tube glabrous, slightly expanded from above the middle, lobes 1.2–1.5 mm long. Achenes 3 mm long, ribbed, glabrous; pappus 6–8 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4
Altitude range
1150–2700 m
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Bujenje, Budongo Forest, Mar 1971, Synnott 530!UGANDA Kigezi District Virunga, Muhavura N slopes, Nov. 1954, Stauffer 974!UGANDA Mengo District Sai, Apr. 1915, Dummer 2440!
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
Congo (Kinshasa)
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Widespread; least concern (LC)

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