Vernonia colorata (Willd.) Drake [family COMPOSITAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Vernonia colorata (Willd.) Drake [family COMPOSITAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 46: 230 (1899); Hist. Pl. Madag. Atlas t. 466; Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv., ed. 2, 3: 313, and Fl. For. Soud.-Guin. 488, t. 109, 1; Berhaut Fl. Sén. 141.
Eupatorium coloratum Willd. [family COMPOSITAE], (1803)
Vernonia senegalensis Less. [family COMPOSITAE], (1829)-F.T.A3: 283; ChevBot357, partly (excl15105).
Information
A shrub or small tree up to about 15 ft. high, with soft pale rusty-tomentose branchlets and white sweet-scented florets in heads about 1/3 in. broad; inflorescence a broadly rounded corymbose panicle; pappus cream, later becoming tawny;common in derived savanna.
Habitat
common in derived savanna.
Range
Throughout central and south tropical Africa
Distribution
Sen.: Michelin! Richard 168! 4N舗doute T. Vigne4 (Dec.) Chev. 2034!Gam.: Ingram! Brown-Lester 73! Georgetown (Jan.) Dalz. 8034!Mali: Tabacco (Jan.) Chev. 133. Diafarabe (Jan.) Davey 402!Port. G.: Pessubé, Bissau (Dec.)Guin.: Timbo (Jan.) Pobéguin 97!S. L.: Kambia (Dec.) Sc.Lib.: (Jan.) Dinklage 3359!Iv. C.: Agboville Aubrév. 637!Ghana: Keta Thonning 131! Cape Coast (Jan.) Vigne FH 947! Achimota (Feb., Apr.) Irvine 147! Milne-Redhead 5089! Dutukpene, near Kete Krachi (Dec.) Adams 4542! Han to Wa (Mar.) Kitson A15!Togo Rep.: Lomé Warnecke 29!Dah.: Kétou, Zagnanado (Feb.) Chev. 23022.N. Nig.: Ilorin (Jan.) Meikle 1007! Nupe Barter 810! Jebba (Dec.) Hagerup 755! Zungeru to Kagura (Oct.) Hepper 982! Jos Plateau Batten-Poole 208!S. Nig.: Olokemeji (Dec.) Jones FHI 4873![Br.] Cam.: Gwoza, 3,500 ft., Dikwa Div. (Jan.) McClintock 148! Mapeo, Alantika Mts., 3,200 ft. (Dec.) Hepper 1604!
Notes
[This is a variable species; the leaves of many plants, particularly from the drier and more northerly localities, have more acute tips and the undersurfaces much less woolly with the secondary and tertiary veins clearly visible; in these plants the middle and outer involucral bracts may he mucronate or acuminate, rather than rounded, with the tips slightly reflexed; there is also variation in the number and distribution of glands on the involucral bracts.-C. D. A.].
Vernonia colorata (Willd.) Drake [family COMPOSITAE]
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