Edit History
Vernonia amoena S. Moore [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 amoena S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 55: 103 (1917); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 243 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 151 (1992). Type: Zimbabwe, Hwange [Wankie], Rogers 13300 (BM!, holo.)
Information
Slender, little-branched erect annual herb 30–110 cm tall; stems finely pubescent with short T-shaped and asymmetrically T-shaped hairs. Leaves sessile, elliptic or ovate, 4–15 cm long, 1–6 cm wide, cuneate-attenuate or attenuate into petioloid base, sinuate-serrate, acuminate or obtuse and apiculate, thinly finely pubescent and sometimes scabridulous, glabrescent. Capitula in lax few-headed terminal corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula shortly finely pubescent; involucre urceolate, 10–19 mm long; phyllaries 3–4-seriate, lanceolate, 5–15 mm long, acute, pale green with darker apices, margins pallid, finely shortly ascending-pubescent. Corolla blue-purple, mauve or white, 6–11 mm long, lobes 2–3 mm long, glabrous or with a few minute hairs near apex. Achenes 3.5–3.7 mm long, 7-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow laciniate scales, 0.2–0.7 mm long, inner pappus pure white, 5–6.5 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 4, 5, 7
Altitude range
800–1750 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mpanda District 16 km on Namanyere–Kipili road, May 1997, Bidgood et al. 3675!TANZANIA Singida District Rift Wall between Kasiriri and Lake Kitangiri, Apr. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 2244!TANZANIA Iringa District Msembe–Kimirimatonge Circuit, Apr. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14249!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
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
Vernonia amoena S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 55: 103 (1917); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 243 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 151 (1992). Type: Zimbabwe, Hwange [Wankie], Rogers 13300 (BM!, holo.)
Information
Slender, little-branched erect annual herb 30–110 cm tall; stems finely pubescent with short T-shaped and asymmetrically T-shaped hairs. Leaves sessile, elliptic or ovate, 4–15 cm long, 1–6 cm wide, cuneate-attenuate or attenuate into petioloid base, sinuate-serrate, acuminate or obtuse and apiculate, thinly finely pubescent and sometimes scabridulous, glabrescent. Capitula in lax few-headed terminal corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula shortly finely pubescent; involucre urceolate, 10–19 mm long; phyllaries 3–4-seriate, lanceolate, 5–15 mm long, acute, pale green with darker apices, margins pallid, finely shortly ascending-pubescent. Corolla blue-purple, mauve or white, 6–11 mm long, lobes 2–3 mm long, glabrous or with a few minute hairs near apex. Achenes 3.5–3.7 mm long, 7-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow laciniate scales, 0.2–0.7 mm long, inner pappus pure white, 5–6.5 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 4, 5, 7
Altitude range
800–1750 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mpanda District 16 km on Namanyere–Kipili road, May 1997, Bidgood et al. 3675!TANZANIA Singida District Rift Wall between Kasiriri and Lake Kitangiri, Apr. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 2244!TANZANIA Iringa District Msembe–Kimirimatonge Circuit, Apr. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14249!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
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
Vernonia amoena S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.B. 55: 103 (1917); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 243 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 151 (1992). Type: Zimbabwe, Hwange [Wankie], Rogers 13300 (BM!, holo.)
Information
Slender, little-branched erect annual herb 30–110 cm tall; stems finely pubescent with short T-shaped and asymmetrically T-shaped hairs. Leaves sessile, elliptic or ovate, 4–15 cm long, 1–6 cm wide, cuneate-attenuate or attenuate into petioloid base, sinuate-serrate, acuminate or obtuse and apiculate, thinly finely pubescent and sometimes scabridulous, glabrescent. Capitula in lax few-headed terminal corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula shortly finely pubescent; involucre urceolate, 10–19 mm long; phyllaries 3–4-seriate, lanceolate, 5–15 mm long, acute, pale green with darker apices, margins pallid, finely shortly ascending-pubescent. Corolla blue-purple, mauve or white, 6–11 mm long, lobes 2–3 mm long, glabrous or with a few minute hairs near apex. Achenes 3.5–3.7 mm long, 7-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow laciniate scales, 0.2–0.7 mm long, inner pappus pure white, 5–6.5 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 4, 5, 7
Altitude range
800–1750 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mpanda District 16 km on Namanyere–Kipili road, May 1997, Bidgood et al. 3675!TANZANIA Singida District Rift Wall between Kasiriri and Lake Kitangiri, Apr. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 2244!TANZANIA Iringa District Msembe–Kimirimatonge Circuit, Apr. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14249!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
Zimbabwe
╳
We're sorry. You don't appear to have permission to access the item.
Full access to these resources typically requires affiliation with a partnering organization. (For example, researchers are often granted access through their affiliation with a university library.)
If you have an institutional affiliation that provides you access, try logging in via your institution
Have access with an individual account? Login here
If you would like to learn more about access options or believe you received this message in error, please contact us.