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Verbesina chinensis

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Name

Identification
Verbesina chinensis L. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Anisopappus chinensis (L.) Hook. & Arn. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Anisopappus chinensis
  • Verbesina chinensis

Flora

Entry for ANISOPAPPUS chinensis subsp. chinensis [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
ANISOPAPPUS chinensis subsp. chinensis [family COMPOSITAE]
Verbesina chinensis L. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 901 (1753); DC., Prodr. 5: 618 (1836)
Anisopappus aureus Hutch. & B.L. Burtt [family COMPOSITAE], in Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 23: 40 (1932). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Kasiki, de Witte 364 (BR!, holo.)
Anisopappus canescens Hutch. [family COMPOSITAE], Botanist S. Afr.: 498 (1946). Type: Zambia, Chiwefwe, Hutchinson & Gillett 3659 (K, holo., BM, iso., not seen as on loan)
Information
Perennialherb, 0.3–0.9 m high; stem erect, single, white-pilose. Leaves elliptic or ovate, 2–6.5 cm long, 0.3–3 cm wide, base cuneate, scabridulous on both surfaces. Capitula 7–10 mm long; phyllaries 2–9 mm long, densely pilose and glandular. Tube of outer florets cylindric, 0.8–1.8 mm long, ray 3.5–6 mm long, style 2–2.7 mm long; disc florets with tube cylindric but narrowed just above the base, 2.5–3.4 mm long, lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Achenes 1.5–2.2 mm long, short-pilose on the ribs; pappus of unequal (rarely equal) scales 0.3–1 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 2; T 4; W Africa from Mali and Sierra Leone to Chad and the Central African Republic, Congo (Kinshasa), Angola, Zambia, Malawi
Altitude range
altitude in our area not given, probably 650–800 m
Distribution
UGANDA W Nile District Madi, Dec. 1862, Grant s.n.!;TANZANIA Ufipa District 3 km E of Kinani, May 1968, Sturtz 349!UGANDA Toro District Toro, Oct. 26th, (name missing) 684!
Distribution (external)
; also India
China
Thailand
Burma
Vietnam

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