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Vernonia polysphaera Baker [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 polysphaera Baker [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1898: 148 (1898); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 235 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 121 (1992); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 655 (1995). Type: Malawi, near Chitipa (Fort Hill), Whyte (K!, holo.)
Vernonia homblei De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in F.R. 13: 207 (1914). Syntypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 459 (BR!, syn.) & Homblé 269 (BR!, syn.)
Cabobanthus polysphaerus (Baker) H. Rob. [family ], in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 112: 228 (1999)
Information
Herb; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile, narrowly oblong, 4–7 cm long, 0.6–1.2 cm wide, rounded at the base, serrate, acuminate, strongly veined, glabrous. Capitula sessile in clusters of up to 5 in the axils of the upper leaves; involucre 9–12 mm long; phyllaries 5-seriate, lanceolate, 3–8.5 mm long, acuminate, pungent, especially the outer white floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. Corolla purple, 9 mm long, lobes 3 mm long, with a few ascending stiff hairs below the apex. Achenes subcylindric, 3–4 mm long, 6–10-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow scales 1–1.8 mm long, inner pappus tawny, of shortly barbellate setae, 6–8.2 mm long. Fig. 47.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1830 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbeya District Unyamwanga, Apr. 1932, Davies 179!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Zambia
Malawi
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 polysphaera Baker [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1898: 148 (1898); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 235 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 121 (1992); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 655 (1995). Type: Malawi, near Chitipa (Fort Hill), Whyte (K!, holo.)
Vernonia homblei De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in F.R. 13: 207 (1914). Syntypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 459 (BR!, syn.) & Homblé 269 (BR!, syn.)
Cabobanthus polysphaerus (Baker) H. Rob. [family ], in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 112: 228 (1999)
Information
Herb; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile, narrowly oblong, 4–7 cm long, 0.6–1.2 cm wide, rounded at the base, serrate, acuminate, strongly veined, glabrous. Capitula sessile in clusters of up to 5 in the axils of the upper leaves; involucre 9–12 mm long; phyllaries 5-seriate, lanceolate, 3–8.5 mm long, acuminate, pungent, especially the outer white floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. Corolla purple, 9 mm long, lobes 3 mm long, with a few ascending stiff hairs below the apex. Achenes subcylindric, 3–4 mm long, 6–10-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow scales 1–1.8 mm long, inner pappus tawny, of shortly barbellate setae, 6–8.2 mm long. Fig. 47.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1830 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbeya District Unyamwanga, Apr. 1932, Davies 179!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Zambia
Malawi
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 polysphaera Baker [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1898: 148 (1898); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 235 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 121 (1992); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 655 (1995). Type: Malawi, near Chitipa (Fort Hill), Whyte (K!, holo.)
Vernonia homblei De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in F.R. 13: 207 (1914). Syntypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 459 (BR!, syn.) & Homblé 269 (BR!, syn.)
Cabobanthus polysphaerus (Baker) H. Rob. [family ], in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 112: 228 (1999)
Information
Herb; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile, narrowly oblong, 4–7 cm long, 0.6–1.2 cm wide, rounded at the base, serrate, acuminate, strongly veined, glabrous. Capitula sessile in clusters of up to 5 in the axils of the upper leaves; involucre 9–12 mm long; phyllaries 5-seriate, lanceolate, 3–8.5 mm long, acuminate, pungent, especially the outer white floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. Corolla purple, 9 mm long, lobes 3 mm long, with a few ascending stiff hairs below the apex. Achenes subcylindric, 3–4 mm long, 6–10-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow scales 1–1.8 mm long, inner pappus tawny, of shortly barbellate setae, 6–8.2 mm long. Fig. 47.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1830 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbeya District Unyamwanga, Apr. 1932, Davies 179!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Zambia
Malawi
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