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Vernonia polysphaera

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Name

Identification
Vernonia homblei De Wild. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Vernonia polysphaera Baker [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Vernonia homblei
  • Vernonia polysphaera

Flora

Entry for Vernonia polysphaera Baker [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
Vernonia polysphaera Baker [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1898: 148 (1898); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 235 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 121 (1992); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 655 (1995). Type: Malawi, near Chitipa (Fort Hill), Whyte (K!, holo.)
Vernonia homblei De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in F.R. 13: 207 (1914). Syntypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 459 (BR!, syn.) & Homblé 269 (BR!, syn.)
Cabobanthus polysphaerus (Baker) H. Rob. [family ], in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 112: 228 (1999)
Information
Herb; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile, narrowly oblong, 4–7 cm long, 0.6–1.2 cm wide, rounded at the base, serrate, acuminate, strongly veined, glabrous. Capitula sessile in clusters of up to 5 in the axils of the upper leaves; involucre 9–12 mm long; phyllaries 5-seriate, lanceolate, 3–8.5 mm long, acuminate, pungent, especially the outer white floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. Corolla purple, 9 mm long, lobes 3 mm long, with a few ascending stiff hairs below the apex. Achenes subcylindric, 3–4 mm long, 6–10-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow scales 1–1.8 mm long, inner pappus tawny, of shortly barbellate setae, 6–8.2 mm long. Fig. 47.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1830 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbeya District Unyamwanga, Apr. 1932, Davies 179!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Zambia
Malawi

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