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Vernonia pristis

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Identification
Vernonia pristis Hutch. & B.L.Burtt [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Vernonia gerberiformis Oliv. & Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Pope G., 1986
Related name
  • Vernonia xiphias
  • Vernonia gerberiformis
  • Vernonia pristis

Flora

Entry for Vernonia gerberiformis var. hockii De Wild. & Muschl. G.V. Pope [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 6, Part 1, (1992) Author: G. V. Pope
Names
Vernonia gerberiformis var. hockii De Wild. & Muschl. G.V. Pope [family COMPOSITAE], in Kew Bull.43: 280 (1988). Type from Zaire.
Vernonia hockii De Wild. & Muschl. [family COMPOSITAE], in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 49: 240 (1913). —Wild in Kirkia 11: 104 (1978). Type as above.
Vernonia pristis Hutch. & B.L. Burtt [family COMPOSITAE], in Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 23: 38 (1932). Type from Zaire.
Information
Slender scapose herbs; scapes pubescent soon glabrescent, seldom lanate at the base. Leaves mostly less than 1 cm. wide, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, tapering-attenuate or acute at the apex, usually drying greenish-brown. Involucres up to c. 3 cm. wide; phyllaries ± narrowly tapering-acuminate at apex.
Habitat
Pyrophyte of dambos.
Distribution
Zambia C c. 45 km. N. of Kabwe on Great North Road, 23.ix.1947, Brenan & Greenway 7921 (FHO; K).Zambia W Solwezi, c. 65 km. W. of Chingola, 21.x.1969, Drummond & Williamson 9216 (BR; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Angola

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