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Kleinia amaniensis (Engl.) A.Berger [family ]

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
Kleinia amaniensis (Engl.) A.Berger [family ], Stapel. und Klein.: 384 (1910); Bally in Journ. E.A. Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 127 (1946); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 927 (1986); P. Halliday, Noteworthy sp. Kleinia, in Hookers Ic. Pl. 29 (4): 17, t. 3877 (1988). Type: a plant cultivated at Berlin, from Tanzania, Amani, Engler s.n. (B†, holo.); neotype: plant cult. at Nairobi, Verdcourt 3583 (K!, neo., chosen by Halliday) Notonia amaniensis Engl. [family COMPOSITAE], in N.B.G.B. 4: 182, t. (1905) Senecio amaniensis (Engl.) H.J.Jacobsen [family COMPOSITAE], in Sukkulentenk. 4: 89 (1951) & Lex. Succ. Pl.: 365 (1974)
Information
Succulent perennial herb 75–140 cm high; stems often much branched, concolorous, glaucous when young. Leaves succulent, sessile, obovate to oblanceolate, 8–17 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, cuneate or attenuate into a petioloid base, margins entire, apex rounded, minutely obtusely apiculate, glabrous, glaucous at least when young. Capitula discoid, numerous in large lax spreading terminal paniculiform bracteolate glaucous cymes, nodding; involucre cylindrical, slightly contracted just below the apex, 11–18 mm long, 10–11 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus few, lax, ovate or lanceolate, 7–8 mm long; phyllaries 7–9 or 13, usually 8, glaucous, tinged purple, 11–20 mm long. Ray florets absent; disc florets orange, dull orange-yellow or yellow, with strong musty odour, corolla 10–18 mm long, tube glabrous, expanded above the middle, lobes 1–1.3 mm long. Achenes glabrous, 6.5 mm long; pappus 7.5–11 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 1, 3, 5, 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1050–2200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Shinyanga District Shinyanga, June 1931, B.D. Burtt 3443!TANZANIA Lushoto District W Usambara, Bungu–Ambangulu, Feb. 1916, Peter 54230!TANZANIA Kondoa District Kinyasi Scarp, Jan. 1928, B.D. Burtt 951!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION None of the collections from the wild is more recent than 1938, and much of its original distribution area has been put under sisal cultivation. The plant is established in cultivation among succulent growers. Data deficient (DD) This species has been cultivated at the National Museums of Kenya (1960, Williams Sangai 729! & 1963, Verdcourt 3583!)

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
Kleinia amaniensis (Engl.) A.Berger [family ], Stapel. und Klein.: 384 (1910); Bally in Journ. E.A. Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 127 (1946); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 927 (1986); P. Halliday, Noteworthy sp. Kleinia, in Hookers Ic. Pl. 29 (4): 17, t. 3877 (1988). Type: a plant cultivated at Berlin, from Tanzania, Amani, Engler s.n. (B†, holo.); neotype: plant cult. at Nairobi, Verdcourt 3583 (K!, neo., chosen by Halliday) Notonia amaniensis Engl. [family COMPOSITAE], in N.B.G.B. 4: 182, t. (1905) Senecio amaniensis (Engl.) H.J.Jacobsen [family COMPOSITAE], in Sukkulentenk. 4: 89 (1951) & Lex. Succ. Pl.: 365 (1974)
Information
Succulent perennial herb 75–140 cm high; stems often much branched, concolorous, glaucous when young. Leaves succulent, sessile, obovate to oblanceolate, 8–17 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, cuneate or attenuate into a petioloid base, margins entire, apex rounded, minutely obtusely apiculate, glabrous, glaucous at least when young. Capitula discoid, numerous in large lax spreading terminal paniculiform bracteolate glaucous cymes, nodding; involucre cylindrical, slightly contracted just below the apex, 11–18 mm long, 10–11 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus few, lax, ovate or lanceolate, 7–8 mm long; phyllaries 7–9 or 13, usually 8, glaucous, tinged purple, 11–20 mm long. Ray florets absent; disc florets orange, dull orange-yellow or yellow, with strong musty odour, corolla 10–18 mm long, tube glabrous, expanded above the middle, lobes 1–1.3 mm long. Achenes glabrous, 6.5 mm long; pappus 7.5–11 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 1, 3, 5, 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1050–2200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Shinyanga District Shinyanga, June 1931, B.D. Burtt 3443!TANZANIA Lushoto District W Usambara, Bungu–Ambangulu, Feb. 1916, Peter 54230!TANZANIA Kondoa District Kinyasi Scarp, Jan. 1928, B.D. Burtt 951!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION None of the collections from the wild is more recent than 1938, and much of its original distribution area has been put under sisal cultivation. The plant is established in cultivation among succulent growers. Data deficient (DD) This species has been cultivated at the National Museums of Kenya (1960, Williams Sangai 729! & 1963, Verdcourt 3583!)

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
Kleinia amaniensis (Engl.) A.Berger [family ], Stapel. und Klein.: 384 (1910); Bally in Journ. E.A. Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 127 (1946); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 41: 927 (1986); P. Halliday, Noteworthy sp. Kleinia, in Hookers Ic. Pl. 29 (4): 17, t. 3877 (1988). Type: a plant cultivated at Berlin, from Tanzania, Amani, Engler s.n. (B†, holo.); neotype: plant cult. at Nairobi, Verdcourt 3583 (K!, neo., chosen by Halliday) Notonia amaniensis Engl. [family COMPOSITAE], in N.B.G.B. 4: 182, t. (1905) Senecio amaniensis (Engl.) H.J.Jacobsen [family COMPOSITAE], in Sukkulentenk. 4: 89 (1951) & Lex. Succ. Pl.: 365 (1974)
Information
Succulent perennial herb 75–140 cm high; stems often much branched, concolorous, glaucous when young. Leaves succulent, sessile, obovate to oblanceolate, 8–17 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, cuneate or attenuate into a petioloid base, margins entire, apex rounded, minutely obtusely apiculate, glabrous, glaucous at least when young. Capitula discoid, numerous in large lax spreading terminal paniculiform bracteolate glaucous cymes, nodding; involucre cylindrical, slightly contracted just below the apex, 11–18 mm long, 10–11 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus few, lax, ovate or lanceolate, 7–8 mm long; phyllaries 7–9 or 13, usually 8, glaucous, tinged purple, 11–20 mm long. Ray florets absent; disc florets orange, dull orange-yellow or yellow, with strong musty odour, corolla 10–18 mm long, tube glabrous, expanded above the middle, lobes 1–1.3 mm long. Achenes glabrous, 6.5 mm long; pappus 7.5–11 mm long.
Range
DISTR. T 1, 3, 5, 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1050–2200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Shinyanga District Shinyanga, June 1931, B.D. Burtt 3443!TANZANIA Lushoto District W Usambara, Bungu–Ambangulu, Feb. 1916, Peter 54230!TANZANIA Kondoa District Kinyasi Scarp, Jan. 1928, B.D. Burtt 951!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION None of the collections from the wild is more recent than 1938, and much of its original distribution area has been put under sisal cultivation. The plant is established in cultivation among succulent growers. Data deficient (DD) This species has been cultivated at the National Museums of Kenya (1960, Williams Sangai 729! & 1963, Verdcourt 3583!)
Kleinia amaniensis (Engl.) A.Berger [family ]
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