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Senecio mattirolii Chiov. [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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Senecio mattirolii Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 6: 150 (1907); A.V.P.: 235, 363 (1957); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 902 (1986); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 309, t. 67 (1991). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Roccati s.n. (TO, holo.)
Information
Perennial herb 10–30(–40) cm high, subscapigerous; stems reddish, crispate-glandular. Basal leaves often reddish, sessile, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spatulate, 5.5–13 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, narrowed into a basally expanded membraneous exauriculate petaloid base, margins sinuate-denticulate or bidenticulate, apex obtuse, minutely apiculate, glandular; stem leaves sessile, smaller, oblong, 2–4.8 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, subauriculate. Capitula discoid, erect, 2–6 in lax terminal corymbs; stalks of the individual capitula glandular; involucre 9–11 mm long, 5.5–7.5 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 4–6, lax, narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–7 mm long, glandular; phyllaries 14–20, purplish, 8–12 mm long, glandular. Ray florets 0; disc florets purple or mauve, corolla 6–7.5 mm long, tube expanded above the middle, glabrous, lobes 0.7–1 mm long. Achenes 3.5–4 mm long, ribbed, glabrous; pappus 6.5–7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2 Congo (Kinshasa); endemic to Ruwenzori
Altitude range
3600–4500 m
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Ruwenzori, Lake Kitandara, Aug. 1960, Richardson & Kendall 26! & below Bujuku Hut, June 1968, Manum 104! & between Bujuku Hut and Lake Irene Hut, Jan. 1969, Lye 1308!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Restricted in area but habitat not threatened except through fire; near threatened (NT)

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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Senecio mattirolii Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 6: 150 (1907); A.V.P.: 235, 363 (1957); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 902 (1986); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 309, t. 67 (1991). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Roccati s.n. (TO, holo.)
Information
Perennial herb 10–30(–40) cm high, subscapigerous; stems reddish, crispate-glandular. Basal leaves often reddish, sessile, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spatulate, 5.5–13 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, narrowed into a basally expanded membraneous exauriculate petaloid base, margins sinuate-denticulate or bidenticulate, apex obtuse, minutely apiculate, glandular; stem leaves sessile, smaller, oblong, 2–4.8 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, subauriculate. Capitula discoid, erect, 2–6 in lax terminal corymbs; stalks of the individual capitula glandular; involucre 9–11 mm long, 5.5–7.5 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 4–6, lax, narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–7 mm long, glandular; phyllaries 14–20, purplish, 8–12 mm long, glandular. Ray florets 0; disc florets purple or mauve, corolla 6–7.5 mm long, tube expanded above the middle, glabrous, lobes 0.7–1 mm long. Achenes 3.5–4 mm long, ribbed, glabrous; pappus 6.5–7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2 Congo (Kinshasa); endemic to Ruwenzori
Altitude range
3600–4500 m
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Ruwenzori, Lake Kitandara, Aug. 1960, Richardson & Kendall 26! & below Bujuku Hut, June 1968, Manum 104! & between Bujuku Hut and Lake Irene Hut, Jan. 1969, Lye 1308!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Restricted in area but habitat not threatened except through fire; near threatened (NT)

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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Senecio mattirolii Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 6: 150 (1907); A.V.P.: 235, 363 (1957); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 902 (1986); Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 309, t. 67 (1991). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Roccati s.n. (TO, holo.)
Information
Perennial herb 10–30(–40) cm high, subscapigerous; stems reddish, crispate-glandular. Basal leaves often reddish, sessile, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-spatulate, 5.5–13 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, narrowed into a basally expanded membraneous exauriculate petaloid base, margins sinuate-denticulate or bidenticulate, apex obtuse, minutely apiculate, glandular; stem leaves sessile, smaller, oblong, 2–4.8 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, subauriculate. Capitula discoid, erect, 2–6 in lax terminal corymbs; stalks of the individual capitula glandular; involucre 9–11 mm long, 5.5–7.5 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 4–6, lax, narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–7 mm long, glandular; phyllaries 14–20, purplish, 8–12 mm long, glandular. Ray florets 0; disc florets purple or mauve, corolla 6–7.5 mm long, tube expanded above the middle, glabrous, lobes 0.7–1 mm long. Achenes 3.5–4 mm long, ribbed, glabrous; pappus 6.5–7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2 Congo (Kinshasa); endemic to Ruwenzori
Altitude range
3600–4500 m
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Ruwenzori, Lake Kitandara, Aug. 1960, Richardson & Kendall 26! & below Bujuku Hut, June 1968, Manum 104! & between Bujuku Hut and Lake Irene Hut, Jan. 1969, Lye 1308!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Restricted in area but habitat not threatened except through fire; near threatened (NT)
Senecio mattirolii Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE]
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