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Vernonia galamensis

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Name

Identification
Vernonia senegalensis Desf. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Vernonia galamensis (Cass.) Less. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Vernonia petitiana
  • Vernonia galamensis
  • Vernonia senegalensis
  • Vernonia zernyi
  • Vernonia pauciflora
  • Vernonia afromontana
Common name
  • toozalin bareewaa = eye-shadow of the gazelle (JMD; RES) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • faransambo kunaŋ (def.-o) = bitter faransambo (Hayes; DF) nyama kunturula = sharp grass (Fox; DF) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • frâsâ bukanaô (K&A) kunturô (K&A) (SENEGAL, ‘SOCE’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • siginiba (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • etikó yíwógi = wife of the big-head (RB) (NIGERIA, NUPE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • faransambo kunango (K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • faransambo kunaŋ (def.-o) (after K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for VERNONIA galamensis (Cass.) Less. [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 galamensis (Cass.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE], (1829);
Centrapalus galamensis Cass. [family COMPOSITAE], (1817). [type as above]
Information
Annual herb, 9–500 cm high; stems ribbed, densely pubescent with asymmetrically T-shaped hairs. Leaves elliptic or linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3–25´0.2–5 cm, apex attenuate, scabridulous above, pubescent beneath, with conspicuous pale veins. Capitula solitary or few to numerous in compound corymbiform cymes; involucre 8–21 mm long. Corolla pink, purple or blue, 7.5–16.5 mm long; lobes 2–6.7 mm long. Achenes blackish, narrowly obovoid, 3.5–8.2 mm long, 10-ribbed, densely ascending-pubescent; outer pappus 0.5–2 mm long; inner pappus buff, 5.5–11 mm long.

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