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Vernonia colorata (Willd.) W.F.M. Drake [family COMPOSITAE]
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
Vernonia colorata (Willd.) W.F.M. Drake [family COMPOSITAE], in Grandid., Hist. Madag. Pl. 6, Atlas 4, t. 466 (1897) & Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 46: 230 (1899); T.T.C.L.: 165 (1949); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 277 (1963); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 212 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 70, t. 13a/1-4 (1992); K.T.S.L.: 567 (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 202 (1994); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 682 (1995). Type: Senegal, Richard (B-W 15145, holo., P!, iso.)
Information
Shrub or small tree (0.75-)1.5-7.5 m tall, trunk up to 30 cm in diameter, bark grey or brown, smooth or stringy; stems densely pubescent with pale brown asymmetrically T-shaped hairs. Leaves petiolate, (broadly) elliptic to ovate, 4.8-36 cm long, 2.5-13.5 cm wide, base cuneate to subtruncate, margins sinuate-serrate or entire, often strongly undulate, apex shortly acuminate, apiculate, thinly pubescent or puberulous and ± glabrescent except on veins above, finely crispate-pubescent or tomentose beneath; petiole 0.5-6 cm long. Capitula numerous in large compound corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula 3-25 mm, densely pubescent; involucre broadly ovoid-cylindrical to campanulate-cylindrical, 3-14 mm long; phyllaries 4-8-seriate, narrowly to broadly ovate, 1-10 mm long, obtuse and apiculate, green, greenish white or yellowish green, with dark green apices or appendages, ciliate on margins, distally glandular. Florets 10-26 per capitulum, scented; corolla white, sometimes tinged pale mauve, lilac or pink, 6.3-12 mm long, with capitate glands all over, lobes glabrous, 2.3-3.5 mm long. Achenes 2.5-4.2 mm long, 10-ribbed, glabrous, glandular between the ribs; outer pappus caducous, 1-4 mm long, inner pappus buff, stramineous or tawny, turning reddish, 6.5-8.5 mm long, distally spatulate.
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
Vernonia colorata (Willd.) W.F.M. Drake [family COMPOSITAE], in Grandid., Hist. Madag. Pl. 6, Atlas 4, t. 466 (1897) & Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 46: 230 (1899); T.T.C.L.: 165 (1949); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 277 (1963); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 212 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 70, t. 13a/1-4 (1992); K.T.S.L.: 567 (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 202 (1994); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 682 (1995). Type: Senegal, Richard (B-W 15145, holo., P!, iso.)
Information
Shrub or small tree (0.75-)1.5-7.5 m tall, trunk up to 30 cm in diameter, bark grey or brown, smooth or stringy; stems densely pubescent with pale brown asymmetrically T-shaped hairs. Leaves petiolate, (broadly) elliptic to ovate, 4.8-36 cm long, 2.5-13.5 cm wide, base cuneate to subtruncate, margins sinuate-serrate or entire, often strongly undulate, apex shortly acuminate, apiculate, thinly pubescent or puberulous and ± glabrescent except on veins above, finely crispate-pubescent or tomentose beneath; petiole 0.5-6 cm long. Capitula numerous in large compound corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula 3-25 mm, densely pubescent; involucre broadly ovoid-cylindrical to campanulate-cylindrical, 3-14 mm long; phyllaries 4-8-seriate, narrowly to broadly ovate, 1-10 mm long, obtuse and apiculate, green, greenish white or yellowish green, with dark green apices or appendages, ciliate on margins, distally glandular. Florets 10-26 per capitulum, scented; corolla white, sometimes tinged pale mauve, lilac or pink, 6.3-12 mm long, with capitate glands all over, lobes glabrous, 2.3-3.5 mm long. Achenes 2.5-4.2 mm long, 10-ribbed, glabrous, glandular between the ribs; outer pappus caducous, 1-4 mm long, inner pappus buff, stramineous or tawny, turning reddish, 6.5-8.5 mm long, distally spatulate.
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
Vernonia colorata (Willd.) W.F.M. Drake [family COMPOSITAE], in Grandid., Hist. Madag. Pl. 6, Atlas 4, t. 466 (1897) & Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 46: 230 (1899); T.T.C.L.: 165 (1949); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 277 (1963); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 212 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 70, t. 13a/1-4 (1992); K.T.S.L.: 567 (1994); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 202 (1994); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 682 (1995). Type: Senegal, Richard (B-W 15145, holo., P!, iso.)
Information
Shrub or small tree (0.75-)1.5-7.5 m tall, trunk up to 30 cm in diameter, bark grey or brown, smooth or stringy; stems densely pubescent with pale brown asymmetrically T-shaped hairs. Leaves petiolate, (broadly) elliptic to ovate, 4.8-36 cm long, 2.5-13.5 cm wide, base cuneate to subtruncate, margins sinuate-serrate or entire, often strongly undulate, apex shortly acuminate, apiculate, thinly pubescent or puberulous and ± glabrescent except on veins above, finely crispate-pubescent or tomentose beneath; petiole 0.5-6 cm long. Capitula numerous in large compound corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula 3-25 mm, densely pubescent; involucre broadly ovoid-cylindrical to campanulate-cylindrical, 3-14 mm long; phyllaries 4-8-seriate, narrowly to broadly ovate, 1-10 mm long, obtuse and apiculate, green, greenish white or yellowish green, with dark green apices or appendages, ciliate on margins, distally glandular. Florets 10-26 per capitulum, scented; corolla white, sometimes tinged pale mauve, lilac or pink, 6.3-12 mm long, with capitate glands all over, lobes glabrous, 2.3-3.5 mm long. Achenes 2.5-4.2 mm long, 10-ribbed, glabrous, glandular between the ribs; outer pappus caducous, 1-4 mm long, inner pappus buff, stramineous or tawny, turning reddish, 6.5-8.5 mm long, distally spatulate.
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