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Vernonia cinerascens

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Vernonia cinerascens Sch.Bip. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Jeffrey, C.,
Related name
  • Vernonia cognata
  • Vernonia spathulata
  • Vernonia porta-taurinae
  • Vernonia cinerascens
  • Vernonia tephrodoides

Flora

Entry for VERNONIA cinerascens Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje (Acanthospermum, Ageratum, Aspilia, Atractylis, Blainvillea, Blumea, Carthamus, Cirsium, Conyza, Crepis, Dichrocephala, Distephanus, Echinops, Eclipta, Erlangera, Felicia, Flaveria, Geigera, Gerbera, Grangea, Gutenbergia, Helichrysum, Iphiona, Iphionopsis, Jurinea, Laggera, Litogyne, Osteospermum, Pegolettia, Pentanema, Pseudoblepharispermum, Pseudognaphalium, Psiadia, Pulicaria, Reichardia, Sclerocarpus, Sonchus, Sphaeranthus, Tagetes, Tarchonanthus, Tridax, Vernonia, Volutaria, Xanthium), T. Eriksson (Athroisma, Blepharispermum), N. Kilian (Launaea), S. King-Jones & M. Thulin (Pluchea), Mesfin Tadesse (Bidens), S. Ortiz & J. Rodríguez-Oubiña (Dicoma), and M. Thulin (Cineraria, Doellia, Emilia, Erythroseris, Euryops, Galinsoga, Gynura, Helianthus, Kleinia, Lactuca, Pentzia, Senecio, Solanecio, Verbesina, Zinnia). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
VERNONIA cinerascens Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], (1867).
VERNONIA tephrodoides Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], (1932);. type: S1, “Malka Arri”, Senni 249 (FT holo.).
Information
Woody herb or shrub 0.3–2 m tall, much-branched, sometimes clambering in other shrubs; branches white-tomentose with short T-shaped hairs, when older with a blackish bark. Leaves sessile, grey-green, obovate to spatulate, 1–4´0.3–1.8 cm, subentire or crenate-denticulate, obtuse or rounded, almost glabrous above, finely pubescent and glabrescent beneath, with sunken glands. Capitula in terminal lax divaricate cymes; involucre 3–5 mm long; phyllaries 3-seriate, green or greyish with purple-brown tips, ovate to lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla deep purple to mauve, 4.6–6.5 mm long, lobes 1–1.2 mm long, glabrous or with a few slender subapical hairs, sparsely glandular. Achenes 2–3.2 mm long, strongly 5–10-ribbed, shortly pubescent; outer pappus of narrow scales, 0.4–1 mm long, inner pappus white, 3–5 mm long.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
30–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 507; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7371; Kazmi, Elmi & Rodol 595.
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Ethiopia
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Angola
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Namibia
South Africa
Yemen
NW India
Notes
Hihl, hirn, tarao (Som.).

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