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Vernonia bainesii Oliv. & Hiern [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 bainesii Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], in F.T.A. 3: 272 (1877); S. Moore in J.L.S. 40: 104 (1911); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 242 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 101 (1992). Type: Zimbabwe, “South African Goldfields”, Baines (K!, holo.)
Information
Perennial herb ± 40 cm tall; stems with sparse appressed simple hairs. Leaves linear, 2–2.8 cm long, 0.15–0.2 cm wide, acute, subglabrous, densely glandular with sunken glands on both surfaces. Capitula terminal, solitary or in lax few-headed corymbiform cymes, sessile among the uppermost foliage leaves; involucre hemispherical, 14–17 mm long; phyllaries 3–5-seriate, lanceolate to oblong, 4–12.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, sparsely pubescent in upper part, especially the inner strongly purple-tinged in upper part. Corolla bright blue, 12 mm long, lobes 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Achenes (immature) ascending-pubescent, especially on ribs; outer pappus of oblong laciniate scales, 1.2 mm long, inner pappus stramineous, 7 mm long.

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 bainesii Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], in F.T.A. 3: 272 (1877); S. Moore in J.L.S. 40: 104 (1911); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 242 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 101 (1992). Type: Zimbabwe, “South African Goldfields”, Baines (K!, holo.)
Information
Perennial herb ± 40 cm tall; stems with sparse appressed simple hairs. Leaves linear, 2–2.8 cm long, 0.15–0.2 cm wide, acute, subglabrous, densely glandular with sunken glands on both surfaces. Capitula terminal, solitary or in lax few-headed corymbiform cymes, sessile among the uppermost foliage leaves; involucre hemispherical, 14–17 mm long; phyllaries 3–5-seriate, lanceolate to oblong, 4–12.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, sparsely pubescent in upper part, especially the inner strongly purple-tinged in upper part. Corolla bright blue, 12 mm long, lobes 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Achenes (immature) ascending-pubescent, especially on ribs; outer pappus of oblong laciniate scales, 1.2 mm long, inner pappus stramineous, 7 mm long.

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 bainesii Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], in F.T.A. 3: 272 (1877); S. Moore in J.L.S. 40: 104 (1911); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 242 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 101 (1992). Type: Zimbabwe, “South African Goldfields”, Baines (K!, holo.)
Information
Perennial herb ± 40 cm tall; stems with sparse appressed simple hairs. Leaves linear, 2–2.8 cm long, 0.15–0.2 cm wide, acute, subglabrous, densely glandular with sunken glands on both surfaces. Capitula terminal, solitary or in lax few-headed corymbiform cymes, sessile among the uppermost foliage leaves; involucre hemispherical, 14–17 mm long; phyllaries 3–5-seriate, lanceolate to oblong, 4–12.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, sparsely pubescent in upper part, especially the inner strongly purple-tinged in upper part. Corolla bright blue, 12 mm long, lobes 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Achenes (immature) ascending-pubescent, especially on ribs; outer pappus of oblong laciniate scales, 1.2 mm long, inner pappus stramineous, 7 mm long.
Vernonia bainesii Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE]
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