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Vernonia homilantha

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Name

Identification
Vernonia homilantha S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Vernonia sennii
  • Vernonia homilantha
  • Vernonia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for VERNONIA homilantha S. Moore [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 homilantha S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], (1903).
VERNONIA sennii Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Badada”, Senni 268 (FT holo.).
Information
Erect to ± scandent woody herb or shrub 1.2–3 m tall; stems densely tomentose with short T-shaped hairs. Leaves lanceolate to slightly obovate, 3–8.5´1–3.8 cm, margins obscurely to coarsely obtusely sinuate-serrate distally, apex obtuse to subacute, thinly pubescent above, pubescent and glandular beneath. Capitula in terminal corymbiform cymes; involucre 2–3.5 mm long; phyllaries pale green, distally with purplish margins and midrib, obovate, obtuse to rounded, pale tomentellous, glandular. Flowers sweetly scented; corolla purple, mauve or blue, 6–7 mm long, lobes 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous, sparsely glandular. Achenes 2.2–2.6 mm long, 5–6-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow laciniate scales or flattened bristles, 0.5–1.2 mm long; inner pappus white, 4.5–5 mm long.
Range
S3
Altitude range
25–30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett, Hemming & Watson 25130, 25031.
Distribution (external)
Kenya

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