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Athroisma gracile Cufod. x boranense [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 Cufod. x boranense [family ], ; T. Eriksson in J.L.S. 119: 150 (1995)
Information
Annual or perennial herb or subshrub 20–40 cm high; young branches densely pubescent. Leaves sessile, narrowly ovate, elliptic or obovate, 2–8 cm long, 0.6–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate or subentire, apex acute to acuminate, sparsely hairy, glandular, 3-veined from base. Glomerules solitary and terminal on small leafy branchlets, 11–20 mm in diameter; phyllaries 3–3.5 mm long; paleae 3.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets 2 or absent, 1.5–2 mm long; disc florets 2 mm long. Achenes obovoid to ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and with or without glands; pappus absent.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 4, 7; T 2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
50–1950 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Dida Galgala, Feb. 1953, Gillett 15093! & 38 km N of Sabule Airstrip, Nov. 1978, Brenan et al. 14841!KENYA Nairobi, Muthaiga, Apr. 1932, Mainwaring in Napier 1863!TANZANIA Masai District Serengeti, July 1973, Mwasumbi 11172TANZANIA Mbulu District Mt Hanang, Feb. 1946, Greenway 7567! & Mar. 1965, Richards 20002!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION (not given for hybrids) The Tanzanian specimens lack the female florets, but are different from A. gracile in the gland-dotted leaves. A. boranense occurs in Ethiopia.
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 Cufod. x boranense [family ], ; T. Eriksson in J.L.S. 119: 150 (1995)
Information
Annual or perennial herb or subshrub 20–40 cm high; young branches densely pubescent. Leaves sessile, narrowly ovate, elliptic or obovate, 2–8 cm long, 0.6–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate or subentire, apex acute to acuminate, sparsely hairy, glandular, 3-veined from base. Glomerules solitary and terminal on small leafy branchlets, 11–20 mm in diameter; phyllaries 3–3.5 mm long; paleae 3.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets 2 or absent, 1.5–2 mm long; disc florets 2 mm long. Achenes obovoid to ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and with or without glands; pappus absent.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 4, 7; T 2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
50–1950 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Dida Galgala, Feb. 1953, Gillett 15093! & 38 km N of Sabule Airstrip, Nov. 1978, Brenan et al. 14841!KENYA Nairobi, Muthaiga, Apr. 1932, Mainwaring in Napier 1863!TANZANIA Masai District Serengeti, July 1973, Mwasumbi 11172TANZANIA Mbulu District Mt Hanang, Feb. 1946, Greenway 7567! & Mar. 1965, Richards 20002!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION (not given for hybrids) The Tanzanian specimens lack the female florets, but are different from A. gracile in the gland-dotted leaves. A. boranense occurs in Ethiopia.
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 Cufod. x boranense [family ], ; T. Eriksson in J.L.S. 119: 150 (1995)
Information
Annual or perennial herb or subshrub 20–40 cm high; young branches densely pubescent. Leaves sessile, narrowly ovate, elliptic or obovate, 2–8 cm long, 0.6–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate or subentire, apex acute to acuminate, sparsely hairy, glandular, 3-veined from base. Glomerules solitary and terminal on small leafy branchlets, 11–20 mm in diameter; phyllaries 3–3.5 mm long; paleae 3.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets 2 or absent, 1.5–2 mm long; disc florets 2 mm long. Achenes obovoid to ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and with or without glands; pappus absent.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 4, 7; T 2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
50–1950 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier District Dida Galgala, Feb. 1953, Gillett 15093! & 38 km N of Sabule Airstrip, Nov. 1978, Brenan et al. 14841!KENYA Nairobi, Muthaiga, Apr. 1932, Mainwaring in Napier 1863!TANZANIA Masai District Serengeti, July 1973, Mwasumbi 11172TANZANIA Mbulu District Mt Hanang, Feb. 1946, Greenway 7567! & Mar. 1965, Richards 20002!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION (not given for hybrids) The Tanzanian specimens lack the female florets, but are different from A. gracile in the gland-dotted leaves. A. boranense occurs in Ethiopia.
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