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Athroisma stuhlmannii O.Hoffm. [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 stuhlmannii O.Hoffm. [family ], in E.J. 20: 233 (1894); T. Eriksson in J.L.S. 119: 174, fig. 40 (1995). Type: ?Tanzania, Shinyanga District: Seke [Sseke], Stuhlmann 4194 (B†, holo.); neotype: Moshi District: 5 km NE of Magugu, Eriksson, Kalema & Leliyo 538 (B, neo., K!, NHT, S, isoneo.)
Information
Annual herb 15–90 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, 3.5–8.5 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate, apex obtuse to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 17 mm long. Glomerules solitary at the nodes, sessile, 9–18 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 2.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2.5 mm long. Achenes obovoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the apex; pappus a ring of basally connected hairs 0.1 mm long.
Range
DISTR. K 5; T 1, 2, 5
Altitude range
850–1300 m
Distribution
KENYA Kisumu District Nyandala–Kisumu, Dec. 1968, Kokwaro 1653 & Kibos, Dec. 1976, Ochieng 2 & Nanga, Aug. 1934, Turner 6790TANZANIA Musoma District Majimoto, Apr. 1959, Tanner 4081!TANZANIA Mbulu District 6 km N of Magugu, Apr. 1964, Welch 569!TANZANIA Dodoma District 7 m on Bahi–Kilimatinde road, Apr. 1988, Bidgood et al. 1202!
Distribution (external)
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Least concern (LC)
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 stuhlmannii O.Hoffm. [family ], in E.J. 20: 233 (1894); T. Eriksson in J.L.S. 119: 174, fig. 40 (1995). Type: ?Tanzania, Shinyanga District: Seke [Sseke], Stuhlmann 4194 (B†, holo.); neotype: Moshi District: 5 km NE of Magugu, Eriksson, Kalema & Leliyo 538 (B, neo., K!, NHT, S, isoneo.)
Information
Annual herb 15–90 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, 3.5–8.5 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate, apex obtuse to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 17 mm long. Glomerules solitary at the nodes, sessile, 9–18 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 2.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2.5 mm long. Achenes obovoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the apex; pappus a ring of basally connected hairs 0.1 mm long.
Range
DISTR. K 5; T 1, 2, 5
Altitude range
850–1300 m
Distribution
KENYA Kisumu District Nyandala–Kisumu, Dec. 1968, Kokwaro 1653 & Kibos, Dec. 1976, Ochieng 2 & Nanga, Aug. 1934, Turner 6790TANZANIA Musoma District Majimoto, Apr. 1959, Tanner 4081!TANZANIA Mbulu District 6 km N of Magugu, Apr. 1964, Welch 569!TANZANIA Dodoma District 7 m on Bahi–Kilimatinde road, Apr. 1988, Bidgood et al. 1202!
Distribution (external)
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Least concern (LC)
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 stuhlmannii O.Hoffm. [family ], in E.J. 20: 233 (1894); T. Eriksson in J.L.S. 119: 174, fig. 40 (1995). Type: ?Tanzania, Shinyanga District: Seke [Sseke], Stuhlmann 4194 (B†, holo.); neotype: Moshi District: 5 km NE of Magugu, Eriksson, Kalema & Leliyo 538 (B, neo., K!, NHT, S, isoneo.)
Information
Annual herb 15–90 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, 3.5–8.5 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate, apex obtuse to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 17 mm long. Glomerules solitary at the nodes, sessile, 9–18 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 2.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2.5 mm long. Achenes obovoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the apex; pappus a ring of basally connected hairs 0.1 mm long.
Range
DISTR. K 5; T 1, 2, 5
Altitude range
850–1300 m
Distribution
KENYA Kisumu District Nyandala–Kisumu, Dec. 1968, Kokwaro 1653 & Kibos, Dec. 1976, Ochieng 2 & Nanga, Aug. 1934, Turner 6790TANZANIA Musoma District Majimoto, Apr. 1959, Tanner 4081!TANZANIA Mbulu District 6 km N of Magugu, Apr. 1964, Welch 569!TANZANIA Dodoma District 7 m on Bahi–Kilimatinde road, Apr. 1988, Bidgood et al. 1202!
Distribution (external)
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Least concern (LC)
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