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Stoebe kilimandscharica

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Identification
Stoebe kilimandscharica O.Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bamps P., 1981
Related name
  • Stoebe elgonensis
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  • Didymocarpus kamerunensis
  • Stoebe kilimandscharica

Flora

Entry for STOEBE kilimandscharica O. Hoffm. [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
STOEBE kilimandscharica O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in P.O.A. C: 411 (1895); Levyns in Journ. S.Afr. Bot. 3: 15 (1937); T.T.C.L.: 160 (1949); I.T.U.: 98 (1952); A.V.P.: 217 (1957); K.T.S.: 160 (1960); P.J. Cribb & G.P. Leedal, Mountain Flow. S. Tanz.: 163, t. 45a (1982); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 56, t. 10 (1989); K.T.S.L.: 563 (1994). Syntypes: Tanzania, Kilimanjaro, Volkens 1012a (B†, K!, syn.), 1518 (B†, BR!, syn.), 1866 (B†, BM!, syn.)
STOEBE kilimandscharica O. Hoffm. var. densiflora [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 30: 430 (1901); Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 474 (1954); Wild in Kirkia 12: 68 (1980). Type: Tanzania, Njombe District, Ukinga [Kinga] Mts, Kinyuweru Mts, Goetze 1198 (B†, holo.), syn. nov.
STOEBE elgonensis Mattf. [family COMPOSITAE], in N.B.G.B. 8: 236 (1922); R.E. Fr. in Acta Horti Berg. 9: 139 (1928). Type: Kenya, Elgon, Lindblom s.n. (S, holo.)
Information
Shrub, 1.2–6 m high, much branched; bark grey, longitudinally fissured; branches tomentosewhen young. Leaves grey-green, fascicled and crowded on abbreviated shoots, recurved, linear, 1–4.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide (to 8 by 1 mm on seedlings), margins involute, apex mucronate, tomentellous. Capitula 3–5 mm long, sessile, solitary or in few-headed fascicles and axillary in leaf-axils in the distal part of the branches, appearing as large compound leafy spikes; phyllaries grey-green, the inner yellowish, oblong, 1–4 mm long, obtuse, tomentellous. Florets golden brown or yellow, one per capitulum, tube cylindrical, 2.3–2.7 mm long, lobes ± 0.2 mm long, anthers 1.7–1.8 mm long, style 2.7–3 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 0.6–1.2 mm long, glandular-puberulous; pappus 1.8–2.7 mm long. Fig. 92 (page 453).
Range
DISTR. U 1, 3; K 2–4, 6; T 2, 7
Altitude range
(1950–)2400–3900 m
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Mt Kadam, Apr. 1959, J. Wilson 791!;KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Elgon, 14 km SW of Suam saw mills, Dec. 1967, Mwangangi & Kariuki 372!TANZANIA Masai District Lemagarut Mt, Oct. 1988, Chuwa 2703!;UGANDA Mbale District Benet, Sebei, Dec. 1938, A. S. Thomas 2657! & Elgon above Butadiri, Dec. 1967 (seedling), Hedberg 4551!KENYA N Nyeri District NW Mt Kenya, Mar. 1968, Mwangangi & Fosberg 553!;KENYA Masai District Nasampolai Valley, Mar. 1969, Greenway & Kanuri 13578!TANZANIA Mbeya District Irungu Forest Reserve, Nov. 1982, Magogo 2300!;TANZANIA Rungwe District Kiwera R. fishing camp, Oct. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8197!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Malawi
Notes
Brenan states that var. densiflora differs from var. kilimandscharica in shorter branches with longer, more spreading (not incurved) leaves; he felt var. kilimandscharica was restricted to mountains in N Tanzania, and elsewhere var. densiflora occurred. But Volkens 1012 from Kilimanjaro shows both types of leaf position, and both types occur on mountains in northern Tanzania. It is true that this is the only area where the appressed leaf position occurs, but I do not believe this warrants varietal status.

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