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Vernonia kraussii

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Name

Identification
Vernonia kraussii Sch.Bip. ex Walp. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Vernonia kraussii

Flora

Entry for VERNONIA Kraussii Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
VERNONIA Kraussii Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Walp. Rep. 2, p. 947
Webbia elæagnoides DC. [family ], l. c. 73.
Information
herbaceous; the simple, striate stem, the inflorescence, and the under surface of the leaves silky-canescent; leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute or acuminate, flat, entire, becoming glabrous above, penninerved; corymb of few or many heads, flat-topped; invol. scales lanceolate, acute, mucronate, canescent; achenes silky. Stem 1 1/2–3 feet high. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inch long, 3/4–1 inch wide, at first thinly silky above, the adult quite glabrous, white and silky beneath. Heads many-flowered. Corymb 2–4 inches across. Corolla pilose. Decandolle's W. oligocephala seems to me to be merely a starved variety.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Between Omsamwubo and Omsamculo, Drege! Magallisberg, Burke & Zey.! Natal, Krauss, Sanderson, &c. Var. β. with var. α. Drege, Gueinzius, 339. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.)

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