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Vernonia towaensis

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Name

Identification
Vernonia towaensis De Wild. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Vernonia gerberiformis Oliv. & Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Pope G., 1986
Related name
  • Vernonia gerberiformis
  • Vernonia towaensis

Flora

Entry for Vernonia gerberiformis subsp. macrocyanus O. Hoffm. C. Jeffrey [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 subsp. macrocyanus O. Hoffm. C. Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE], in Kew Bull. 43: 234 (1988). Type from Angola.
Vernonia macrocyanus O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot. 13: 20 (1896). —Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1, 3: 531 (1898). —S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 65, Suppl. 2, Gamopet.: 48 (1927). —Mendonça, Contrib. Conhec. Fl. Angol., 1 Compositae: 24 (1943). Type as above.
Vernonia primulina O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in Warb., Kunene-Sambesi Exped. Baum: 402 (1903). Type from Angola.
Vernonia towaensis De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 5: 96 (1915). Type from Zaire.
Information
Robust herbs; stems scapiform, often with 3–7 cauline leaves, puberulous or glabrescent. Largest leaves more than 4 cm. wide, elliptic-obovate to oblanceolate, rounded to subobtuse at apex, contemporaneous with capitula, usually drying pale-green, sometimes brownish. Involucres 3–5 cm. wide; phyllaries mostly more than 4 mm. wide, ovate-lanceolate, tapering-acute apically.
Habitat
A pyrophyte of dambo margins and wooded grasslands.
Distribution
Zambia C Kabwe, vi. 1909, Rogers 8263 (K).Zambia W Ndola, 24.ix.1953, Fanshawe 308 (BR; K; NDO).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
Burundi
Zaire
Angola
Cameroon
Nigeria

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