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Crassocephalum bauchiense

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Identification
Gynura unrecorded unrecorded [family COMPOSITAE ] Gynura valeriana Oliv. [family COMPOSITAE ] Crassocephalum bauchiense (Hutch.) Milne-Redh. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Milne-Redhead, E., Gynura coerulea Hutch. & J.M. Dalziel [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Hutchinson & Dalziel,
Related name
  • Crassocephalum bauchiense
  • Gynura coerulea
  • Gynura unrecorded
  • Gynura valeriana

Flora

Entry for Crassocephalum bauchiense (Hutch.) Milne-Redh. [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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Crassocephalum bauchiense (Hutch.) Milne-Redh. [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 5: 376 (1951); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 908 (1986); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 354 (1991). Type: Nigeria, Vom, Young 158 (K!, holo.)
Gynura caerulea Hutch. & Dalz. [family COMPOSITAE], F.W.T.A. 2: 147, 148 (1931), nom. illegit., non G. coerulea O. Hoffm. (1893). Type as above
Gynura bauchiensis Hutch. [family COMPOSITAE], in F.W.T.A. 2: 608 (1936)
Information
Annual herb up to 120 cm tall; stems erect, shortly pubescent. Leaves sessile, obovate-lanceolate in outline, deeply pinnate-lyrately lobed with 5–20 lanceolate sinuate-dentate or sinuate-lobulate lateral lobes, 2–15 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, minutely acuminate-apiculate, scattered-pubescent especially on veins. Capitula numerous in copious compound terminal corymbs, discoid; stalks of the individual capitula pubescent; involucre cylindrical, 7.5–8.5 mm long, 3 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 11–18, narrowly lanceolate, 2–3.5 mm long, ciliate; phyllaries 12–18, 7–8 mm long, glabrous. Disc florets pale blue; corolla 6–7 mm long, tube glabrous, gradually expanded in upper third, lobes 0.7 mm long. Achenes 2.5–3 mm long, ribbed, very shortly sparsely hairy between the ribs; pappus 6–7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 4
Altitude range
1290 m
Distribution
UGANDA Mubende District Kakumiro, Oct. 1945, A.S. Thomas 4320!
Distribution (external)
Nigeria
Cameroon
Congo (Kinshasa)
Zambia
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area CONSERVATION One specimen from Uganda, but due to distribution probably least concern (LC)

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