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Gutenbergia polycephala Oliv. & Hiern [family ]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
Gutenbergia polycephala Oliv. & Hiern [family ], in J.L.S. 15: 95 (1876) & in F.T.A. 3: 264 (1877); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 253 (1988); Wild & G.V. Pope in Kirkia 10: 352 (1977); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 159, t. 24g (1992); Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 37: 301 (1992). Type: Tanzania, Kigoma District, Kawele, Cameron (K!, holo.)
Information
Annual herb 15-120 cm tall; stems erect, branching, grey-brown, puberulous. Leaves opposite (proximally) or alternate, sessile, (narrowly) ovate, 2-11 cm long, 0.5-5 cm wide, base cuneate to rounded or cordate, margins subentire, apex obtuse and apiculate, green and sparsely pubescent above, white-tomentose beneath. Capitula in rather lax terminal and upper axillary compound corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula appressed-pubescent; involucre subglobose, 2-4 mm in diameter at flowering time; phyllaries 3-seriate, narrowly ovate, 2-6 mm long, the outer acute, slightly pungent, the inner obtuse, apiculate, all green centrally especially in upper part and with pallid membranous margins, finely rather densely pubescent to densely tomentose. Corolla 4-7.5 mm long, rich purple to pale violet blue, lilac or rarely white, densely hairy all over, lobes 1.5-2.7 mm long. Achenes ellipsoid, 1-1.7 mm long, 10-ribbed with 5 more prominent ribs alternating with 5 less prominent ribs, sparsely shortly hairy at least at the apex, to almost glabrous; pappus absent. Fig. 30/6 (achene), p. 127.
Range
Distr.T 2-8
Altitude range
1-1400 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Masai District Ngaserai, 5 km W of Tinga-tinga, May 1962, Welch 478!TANZANIA Bagamoyo District Kidomole, Apr. 1964, Semsei 3848!TANZANIA Iringa District km 8 from Msembi to Nyamakuyu Rapids, Mar. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14215!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
Gutenbergia polycephala Oliv. & Hiern [family ], in J.L.S. 15: 95 (1876) & in F.T.A. 3: 264 (1877); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 253 (1988); Wild & G.V. Pope in Kirkia 10: 352 (1977); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 159, t. 24g (1992); Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 37: 301 (1992). Type: Tanzania, Kigoma District, Kawele, Cameron (K!, holo.)
Information
Annual herb 15-120 cm tall; stems erect, branching, grey-brown, puberulous. Leaves opposite (proximally) or alternate, sessile, (narrowly) ovate, 2-11 cm long, 0.5-5 cm wide, base cuneate to rounded or cordate, margins subentire, apex obtuse and apiculate, green and sparsely pubescent above, white-tomentose beneath. Capitula in rather lax terminal and upper axillary compound corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula appressed-pubescent; involucre subglobose, 2-4 mm in diameter at flowering time; phyllaries 3-seriate, narrowly ovate, 2-6 mm long, the outer acute, slightly pungent, the inner obtuse, apiculate, all green centrally especially in upper part and with pallid membranous margins, finely rather densely pubescent to densely tomentose. Corolla 4-7.5 mm long, rich purple to pale violet blue, lilac or rarely white, densely hairy all over, lobes 1.5-2.7 mm long. Achenes ellipsoid, 1-1.7 mm long, 10-ribbed with 5 more prominent ribs alternating with 5 less prominent ribs, sparsely shortly hairy at least at the apex, to almost glabrous; pappus absent. Fig. 30/6 (achene), p. 127.
Range
Distr.T 2-8
Altitude range
1-1400 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Masai District Ngaserai, 5 km W of Tinga-tinga, May 1962, Welch 478!TANZANIA Bagamoyo District Kidomole, Apr. 1964, Semsei 3848!TANZANIA Iringa District km 8 from Msembi to Nyamakuyu Rapids, Mar. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14215!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
Gutenbergia polycephala Oliv. & Hiern [family ], in J.L.S. 15: 95 (1876) & in F.T.A. 3: 264 (1877); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 253 (1988); Wild & G.V. Pope in Kirkia 10: 352 (1977); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 159, t. 24g (1992); Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 37: 301 (1992). Type: Tanzania, Kigoma District, Kawele, Cameron (K!, holo.)
Information
Annual herb 15-120 cm tall; stems erect, branching, grey-brown, puberulous. Leaves opposite (proximally) or alternate, sessile, (narrowly) ovate, 2-11 cm long, 0.5-5 cm wide, base cuneate to rounded or cordate, margins subentire, apex obtuse and apiculate, green and sparsely pubescent above, white-tomentose beneath. Capitula in rather lax terminal and upper axillary compound corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula appressed-pubescent; involucre subglobose, 2-4 mm in diameter at flowering time; phyllaries 3-seriate, narrowly ovate, 2-6 mm long, the outer acute, slightly pungent, the inner obtuse, apiculate, all green centrally especially in upper part and with pallid membranous margins, finely rather densely pubescent to densely tomentose. Corolla 4-7.5 mm long, rich purple to pale violet blue, lilac or rarely white, densely hairy all over, lobes 1.5-2.7 mm long. Achenes ellipsoid, 1-1.7 mm long, 10-ribbed with 5 more prominent ribs alternating with 5 less prominent ribs, sparsely shortly hairy at least at the apex, to almost glabrous; pappus absent. Fig. 30/6 (achene), p. 127.
Range
Distr.T 2-8
Altitude range
1-1400 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Masai District Ngaserai, 5 km W of Tinga-tinga, May 1962, Welch 478!TANZANIA Bagamoyo District Kidomole, Apr. 1964, Semsei 3848!TANZANIA Iringa District km 8 from Msembi to Nyamakuyu Rapids, Mar. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14215!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
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