Isotype of Vernonia wildiiMerxm. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Vernonia bainesiiOliv. & Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Vernonia wildii
Vernonia buchananii
Vernonia buchanani
Vernonia orchidorrhiza
Vernonia bainesii
Flora
Entry for VERNONIA Bainesii O. & H. [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
VERNONIA BainesiiO. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
Herb of 1 ft. more or less; stems erect leafy, probably from a woody stock, conspicuously striate from the leaf-midribs, sparsely strigillose or glabrate; simple below, branching above. Leaves narrow-linear, acute, strongly revolute, glabrate, glandular-pitted with depressed median line above, midrib paler, conspicuous beneath, 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Capitula campanulate 3/4 in. long and broad, singly terminating the erect upper leafy branches; scales multi-seriate appressed obtuse muticous or mucronulate, with a subprominent midrib above, glabrate; outer and median scales elliptic-ovate to obovate, inner linear-oblong. Achenes hispid, obscurely 10-costate. Pappus duplex, sordid, outer very short, narrowly squamiform, inner often broadly setaceous barbellate.
Distribution
South Central (?) “South African Gold Fields,” T. Baines!
