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Vernonia buchingeri

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Identification
Isotype of Ascaricida buchingeri Sch.Bip. ex Steetz [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Smith,C.E., Vernonia buchingeri (Sch.Bip. ex Steetz) Oliv.&Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ascaricida buchingeri
  • Vernonia adoensis
  • Vernonia argutidens
  • Vernonia buchingeri

Flora

Entry for VERNONIA Buchingeri Sch. Bip. ex Steetz [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 Buchingeri Sch. Bip. ex Steetz [family COMPOSITAE], in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 359, adnot.
Ascaricida Buchingeri Steetz [family ], l.c.
Information
Stem erect 1 1/2 ft. from a woody stock, sulcate with thinly scattered pubescence, glabrate. Leaves sessile, almost concealing the stem, oblong-lanceolate, acute, denticulate-serrate with thinly scattered minute crisped hairs on both sides. Capitula resembling those of V. Kotschyana in size, in few-headed terminal cymes; appendix of median scales ovate-lanceolate subacute (not acuminate) glabrous or nearly so. Corolla-tube gradually narrowed. Achenes probably as in V. Kotschyana; setæ rather dilated towards the apex, obtuse, barbate.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! (1853, No. 386.)

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