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Vernonia brachycalyx

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Identification
Vernonia brachycalyx O.Hoffm. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kalanda,K., Vernonia hoffmanniana S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Vernonia jodopappa
  • Vernonia brachycalyx
  • Vernonia thomsoniana
  • Vernonia hoffmanniana
  • Vernonia jodopapposa

Flora

Entry for Vernonia brachycalyx 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, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
Vernonia brachycalyx O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in P.O.A. C: 405 (1895); T.T.C.L.: 163 (1949); Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 559 (1985); Blundell, Wild Flow. E. Afr.: t. 580 (1987); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 218 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 74 (1992); K.T.S.L.: 566 (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 201 (1994); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 651 (1995). Syntypes: Kenya, Teita, Hildebrandt 2466, 2499 (BM!, K!, Syn.) & Asi, Fischer 356 (B†, Syn.); Tanzania, Kwa Mshusa, Holst 9096 (BM!, P!, Syn.) & Kilimanjaro, Volkens 524 (B†, Syn.); Congo (Kinshasa), SW of Lake Albert-Edward, Stuhlmann 3051(B†, Syn.) & Mukenge & on the Lualeba R., Pogge 1290, 1304, 1306 (all B†, Syn.). Lectotype: Kenya: Teita District, Taita Hills, Hildebrandt 2466 (BM!, K!, selected here)
Vernonia meiocalyx S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 38: 155 (1900). Type: Kenya, Northern Frontier District, Cantalla & Hadda, also Elamo, anno 1898, Delamere (BM!, Syn.)
Vernonia hoffmanniana S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 38: 156 (1900), nom. provis., non rite publ.
Vernonia jodopappa Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 60 (1935), nom. illegit., non Sch. Bip. (1861). Type: Kenya, Nyeri, Balbo 428 (TOM, holo., FT!, iso.)
Vernonia jodopapposa Lanza [family COMPOSITAE], in Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot.: 244 (1939). Type as for V. jodopappa
Information
 Erect or ± scrambling or scandent weakly woody shrub or rarely small tree 1.5-6 m tall, stems finely shortly crispate-pubescent with asymmetrically T-shaped hairs or subsimple hairs, sometimes densely so; older stems with dark grey-brown conspicuously lenticellate bark. Leaves petiolate, ovate or elliptic, 3-17 cm long, 1.2-8 cm wide, base cuneate or sometimes rounded to subtruncate and shortly decurrent on to the petiole, margins obscurely sinuate-denticulate to coarsely serrate, apex shortly acuminate or acuminate-attenuate, apiculate, thinly minutely pubescent or scattered-puberulous and ± glabrescent above, finely shortly crispate-pubescent especially on veins beneath, aromatic; petiole 0.2-2 cm long. Capitula numerous in dense terminal and upper axillary compound corymbiform cymose clusters; stalks of individual capitula 2-3 mm, densely crispate-pubescent; involucre campanulate, 1.5-3 mm; phyllaries 2-3-seriate, (narrowly) ovate, acute, inner obtuse to acute, apiculate, 1.9-5 mm long, shortly finely pubescent at least in upper part and ciliate on the margins, green, often purplish-tinged at apex and along margins. Corolla purple, mauve or lilac, or (in many Tanzanian specimens) white, sweetly scented, 5-8.5 mm long, lobes 1.5-2.2 mm long, glabrous or with a few slender crispate hairs, glandular. Achenes obpyramidal, 1.7-2.6 mm long, 4-6-ribbed, shortly ascending-pubescent at least on ribs; outer pappus of narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate laciniate scales 0.2-1.3 mm long, inner pappus reddish brown, pink, or mauve, or (in many Tanzanian specimens) white or cream, 3.5-5 mm long.
Range
Distr.U 1-4; K 1, 3-7; T 1-7
Altitude range
750-2700 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Mt Kulal, June 1960, Oteke 127!KENYA Meru District 10 km SE of Meru on Ishiara road, June 1979, Gilbert et al. 5682!KENYA Masai District Aitong, Apr. 1961, Glover et al. 301!TANZANIA Masai District Ngorongoro Crater wall, July 1989, Chuwa 2824!TANZANIA Lushoto District Lushoto, Aug. 1970, Ngoundai 446!TANZANIA Iringa District 5 km SE of Iringa, Feb. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 1376!UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, Oct. 1956, J. Wilson 284!UGANDA Ankole District Queen Elizabeth National Park, 12 km SSE of Mweya Lodge, May 1988, Lock 88/16!UGANDA Masaka District Bogonzi, May 1971, Lye & Katende 6133!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Ethiopia
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Notes
Individual plants may flower for over a month (fide G.H.S. Wood); the flowers are attractive to butterflies.

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