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Athroisma gracile (Oliv.) T.Eriksson subsp. psylloides [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
Athroisma gracile (Oliv.) T.Eriksson subsp. psylloides [family ], in J.L.S. 119: 170, t. 36 (1995). Type: Tanzania, Kilimanjaro, Smith s.n. (K!, holo.) Polycline psyllioides Oliv. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 23: t. 2293 (1894) Polycline haareri Dandy [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1926: 437 (1926). Type: Tanzania, Arusha District: Doinyo Sambu, Haarer B150 (K!, holo.) Athroisma psyllioides (Oliv.) Mattf. [family ], in N.B.G.B. 13: 302 (1936); Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 616, fig. 189/1 (1985); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: pl. 89 (1987); Lisowski, F.A.C. Compositae (Inuleae): 210, t. 44 (1989) Athroisma haareri (Dandy) Mattf. [family ], in N.B.G.B. 13: 302 (1936)
Information
Annual or perennial herb 0.2–1 m high. Leaves sessile or subsessile, linear to elliptic, 2.5–12 cm long, 0.1–2.5 cm wide, margins entire or dentate to serrate. Paleae 3–4 mm long. Flowers white (pink in bud). Achenes obovoid, 1–1.5 mm long, 0.5–1 mm across, tuberculate or rugose; pappus absent or of hairs.
Range
DISTR. U 3; K 4, 6, 7; T 2, 3
Altitude range
0–1950 m
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Katumani Farm near Machakos, June 1958, Bogdan 4604!KENYA Masai District S of Kajiado–Namanga road, June 1957, Greenway 9197!KENYA Teita District Bura Station, July 1958, Semlingwa 21!TANZANIA Arusha District by Ngare Nanyuki road, Dec. 1968, Richards 23359!TANZANIA Pare District Mkomazi Game Reserve, below Ibaya Camp, May 1995, Abdallah & Vollesen 95/157!TANZANIA Korogwe District Mombo, Aug. 1966, Semsei 4086!UGANDA Busoga District 6 km W of Kaliso, Sep. 1952, Wood 38 (fide EA)
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Due to wide range of habitats, probably least concern (LC)
Athroisma gracile (Oliv.) T.Eriksson subsp. psylloides [family ]
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