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Vernonia tigrensis

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Identification
Vernonia adoensis Sch.Bip. ex Walp. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Vernonia tigrensis Oliv.&Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Smith,C.E.,
Related name
  • Vernonia macrocephala
  • Baccharoides adoensis
  • Vernonia tigrensis
  • Vernonia adoensis
  • Vernonia polymorpha

Flora

Entry for VERNONIA tigrensis O. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
VERNONIA tigrensis O. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
VERNONIA polymorpha Vatke [family COMPOSITAE], in Linnæa xxxix. p. 476 (1875)
VERNONIA polymorpha Vatke var. γ. accedens [family COMPOSITAE], l.c. p. 477.
VERNONIA polymorpha Vatke var. (?) β. ambigua [family COMPOSITAE], l.c. p. 477.
Information
A shrub ranging up to 6–7 ft. high. Branches terete, striate, minutely hoary at length nearly glabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, subacute, narrowed below into the petiole, serrate or serrate-dentate, puberulous-scabrid above, tomentose beneath, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long on flowering shoot, 3/4–1 in. broad; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in. Capitula 1 1/4 in. diameter, on puberulous peduncles of 1/4–1 1/2 in. in terminal corymbose cymes 1/2 ft. diameter; scales puberulous or inner glabrous below, ascending; intermediate linear-oblong with an oblong-or linear-lanceolate subacute appendix separated by but a slight constriction, innermost scales linear acute; receptacle naked. Corolla not seen (violet-coloured, fide Vatke). Achenes 20-striate, 10 red alternating with 10 nearly black striæ, shortly hirsute with ascending tawny hairs; setæ scabrous, outer very short.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! 1862, n. 817; Hildebrandt!

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