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Senecio transmarinus (S.Moore) Hedb. var. sycephyllus [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 transmarinus (S.Moore) Hedb. var. sycephyllus [family COMPOSITAE], A.V.P.: 244, 362 (1957); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 902 (1986), as sycephalus; Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 314, t. 68 (1991). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Scott Elliot 7965 (BM!, holo., K!, iso.) Senecio sycephyllus S.Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.L.S. 37: 324 (1906) Senecio coreopsoides Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 6: 149 (1907). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Roccati s.n. (TO, holo.) Senecio cortesianus Muschl. [family COMPOSITAE], in Z.A.E.: 399 (1911). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Ruwenzori, Butagu Valley, Mildbraed 2552 (B†, holo., BR!, iso.) – note – BR label has the number 2582
Information
Basal leaves sessile; stem leaves ± auriculate, pinnately lobed with ovate, rounded, ± apiculate-lobulate lobes, to 8 cm long and 6.5 cm wide; involucre 6.5–10 mm long, 3.5–5.5 mm in diameter; calyculus bracts 2–7.5 mm long; phyllaries 6–10 mm long. Ray florets 8–9.
Range
DISTR. U 2 Congo (Kinshasa); endemic to Ruwenzori
Altitude range
2850–4200 m
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Ruwenzori, Bujuku Valley near Bigo Camp, Mar. 1948, Hedberg 357! & Freshfield Pass, July 1951, Osmaston 3888! & near Nyamileju Hut, Dec. 1968, Lye 1248!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Seventeen specimens from Uganda; data deficient (DD) Leaf margins vary considerably in the material seen and Osmaston 1252 from 2400 m has the stem leaves conforming to the description of var. transmarinus but lower leaves are pinnatilobed as in var. sycephyllus. Magogo 31 from 2600 m has most leaves dentate but some seem to be almost pinnatilobed.
Senecio transmarinus (S.Moore) Hedb. var. sycephyllus [family COMPOSITAE]
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