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Athroisma inevitabile T.Eriksson [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 inevitabile T.Eriksson [family ], in J.L.S. 119: 178, fig. 41 (1995). Type: Rwanda, Kibungu, Rwinkavu, Lewalle 2611 (BR!, holo., EA, K!, iso.)
Information
Annual herb 20–80 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves linear, elliptic, narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 3.5–10 cm long, 0.3–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate to subentire, apex acuminate to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 15 mm long. Glomerules solitary and terminal, 9–15 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 3 mm long. Florets white, rarely pale mauve, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2 mm long. Achenes obovoid or ellipsoid, 1 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the base and apex; pappus absent or of a ring of a few hairs 0.1 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1–3; T 4
Altitude range
1050–1350 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kigoma District Uvinza to Saline, Feb. 1926, Peter 36233! & Uvinza, Feb. 1958, Friend 36!UGANDA Acholi District Achua R., no date, Liebenberg 246!UGANDA Teso District Serere, Aug. 1932, Chandler 866!UGANDA Busoga District Kaliro Plantation, May 1953, G.H.S.Wood 741!
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Six specimens from Uganda, two from Tanzania, and six from Rwanda; probably least concern (LC) Close to A. stuhlmannii.
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 inevitabile T.Eriksson [family ], in J.L.S. 119: 178, fig. 41 (1995). Type: Rwanda, Kibungu, Rwinkavu, Lewalle 2611 (BR!, holo., EA, K!, iso.)
Information
Annual herb 20–80 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves linear, elliptic, narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 3.5–10 cm long, 0.3–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate to subentire, apex acuminate to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 15 mm long. Glomerules solitary and terminal, 9–15 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 3 mm long. Florets white, rarely pale mauve, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2 mm long. Achenes obovoid or ellipsoid, 1 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the base and apex; pappus absent or of a ring of a few hairs 0.1 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1–3; T 4
Altitude range
1050–1350 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kigoma District Uvinza to Saline, Feb. 1926, Peter 36233! & Uvinza, Feb. 1958, Friend 36!UGANDA Acholi District Achua R., no date, Liebenberg 246!UGANDA Teso District Serere, Aug. 1932, Chandler 866!UGANDA Busoga District Kaliro Plantation, May 1953, G.H.S.Wood 741!
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Six specimens from Uganda, two from Tanzania, and six from Rwanda; probably least concern (LC) Close to A. stuhlmannii.
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 inevitabile T.Eriksson [family ], in J.L.S. 119: 178, fig. 41 (1995). Type: Rwanda, Kibungu, Rwinkavu, Lewalle 2611 (BR!, holo., EA, K!, iso.)
Information
Annual herb 20–80 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves linear, elliptic, narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 3.5–10 cm long, 0.3–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate to subentire, apex acuminate to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 15 mm long. Glomerules solitary and terminal, 9–15 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 3 mm long. Florets white, rarely pale mauve, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2 mm long. Achenes obovoid or ellipsoid, 1 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the base and apex; pappus absent or of a ring of a few hairs 0.1 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1–3; T 4
Altitude range
1050–1350 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kigoma District Uvinza to Saline, Feb. 1926, Peter 36233! & Uvinza, Feb. 1958, Friend 36!UGANDA Acholi District Achua R., no date, Liebenberg 246!UGANDA Teso District Serere, Aug. 1932, Chandler 866!UGANDA Busoga District Kaliro Plantation, May 1953, G.H.S.Wood 741!
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our areaCONSERVATION Six specimens from Uganda, two from Tanzania, and six from Rwanda; probably least concern (LC) Close to A. stuhlmannii.
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