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ATHRIXIA subsimplex Brenan [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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
ATHRIXIA subsimplex Brenan [family COMPOSITAE], in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 475 (1954); Kroner in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 16: 73 (1980). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Brass 17311 (K!, holo., SRGH, iso.)
Information
Woody herb, 0.3–0.5 m high, hardly branched, single-stemmed?; called stoloniferous by Brenan; stems brown, grey-tomentose, densely leafy. Leaves linear, 0.5–4 cm long, 0.1–0.2 cm wide, porrect, base slightly widened, margins revolute, apex acute and mucronate, sparsely pubescent or glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath. Capitula 8–12 mm long, heterogamous, solitary or in few-headed leafy corymbs, rarely up to 20 heads together; stalks of individual capitula 2–5 mm long; phyllaries with dark tips, 2–8 mm long, pubescent. Florets: ray florets mauve, 14–30, tube cylindrical, 4.3–4.7 mm long, ray 6–7 mm long, 1.8–2.5 mm wide, style 4–5.3 mm long; tube florets orange-yellow, 60–80, tube cylindric, 5–6 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long, anthers ± 2.5 mm long, style 5.5–7 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 1.3–1.7 mm long, with some basal hairs; pappus of barbellate bristles 4.5–5.5 mm long with an outer series of small bristles to 0.7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1800–2700 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbeya District foothills of Mbeya Range, July 1959, Procter 1259!;TANZANIA Rungwe District Ngozi, Oct. 1956, Richards 6493!;TANZANIA Njombe District Poroto Mts, Aug. 1972, Pócs 6752c!
Distribution (external)
; 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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
ATHRIXIA subsimplex Brenan [family COMPOSITAE], in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 475 (1954); Kroner in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 16: 73 (1980). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Brass 17311 (K!, holo., SRGH, iso.)
Information
Woody herb, 0.3–0.5 m high, hardly branched, single-stemmed?; called stoloniferous by Brenan; stems brown, grey-tomentose, densely leafy. Leaves linear, 0.5–4 cm long, 0.1–0.2 cm wide, porrect, base slightly widened, margins revolute, apex acute and mucronate, sparsely pubescent or glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath. Capitula 8–12 mm long, heterogamous, solitary or in few-headed leafy corymbs, rarely up to 20 heads together; stalks of individual capitula 2–5 mm long; phyllaries with dark tips, 2–8 mm long, pubescent. Florets: ray florets mauve, 14–30, tube cylindrical, 4.3–4.7 mm long, ray 6–7 mm long, 1.8–2.5 mm wide, style 4–5.3 mm long; tube florets orange-yellow, 60–80, tube cylindric, 5–6 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long, anthers ± 2.5 mm long, style 5.5–7 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 1.3–1.7 mm long, with some basal hairs; pappus of barbellate bristles 4.5–5.5 mm long with an outer series of small bristles to 0.7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1800–2700 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbeya District foothills of Mbeya Range, July 1959, Procter 1259!;TANZANIA Rungwe District Ngozi, Oct. 1956, Richards 6493!;TANZANIA Njombe District Poroto Mts, Aug. 1972, Pócs 6752c!
Distribution (external)
; 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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
ATHRIXIA subsimplex Brenan [family COMPOSITAE], in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 475 (1954); Kroner in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 16: 73 (1980). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Brass 17311 (K!, holo., SRGH, iso.)
Information
Woody herb, 0.3–0.5 m high, hardly branched, single-stemmed?; called stoloniferous by Brenan; stems brown, grey-tomentose, densely leafy. Leaves linear, 0.5–4 cm long, 0.1–0.2 cm wide, porrect, base slightly widened, margins revolute, apex acute and mucronate, sparsely pubescent or glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath. Capitula 8–12 mm long, heterogamous, solitary or in few-headed leafy corymbs, rarely up to 20 heads together; stalks of individual capitula 2–5 mm long; phyllaries with dark tips, 2–8 mm long, pubescent. Florets: ray florets mauve, 14–30, tube cylindrical, 4.3–4.7 mm long, ray 6–7 mm long, 1.8–2.5 mm wide, style 4–5.3 mm long; tube florets orange-yellow, 60–80, tube cylindric, 5–6 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long, anthers ± 2.5 mm long, style 5.5–7 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 1.3–1.7 mm long, with some basal hairs; pappus of barbellate bristles 4.5–5.5 mm long with an outer series of small bristles to 0.7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1800–2700 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbeya District foothills of Mbeya Range, July 1959, Procter 1259!;TANZANIA Rungwe District Ngozi, Oct. 1956, Richards 6493!;TANZANIA Njombe District Poroto Mts, Aug. 1972, Pócs 6752c!
Distribution (external)
; Malawi
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