- Family: Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus: Vernonia Schreb.
Vernonia kandtii Muschl.
- Genus: Vernonia Schreb.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Tanzania, Rwanda, Angola.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Habit
- Herb 50–120(–200 outside our area) cm tall, with annual stems from a perennial creeping rhizome; stems unbranched but for the inflorescence, sparsely hispid with simple hairs.
- Leaves
- Leaves sessile, erect or ascending, ovate to narrowly oblong or lanceolate, 1.2–7 cm long, 0.3–2.4 cm wide, decreasing in size and becoming relatively narrower up the stem, base cuneate to rounded, margins revolute and remotely obscurely denticulate, apex acute and apiculate, scabrid on both surfaces but more sparsely so beneath, with dense sessile glands beneath.
- Capitulum
- Capitula few to several in lax terminal corymbiform cymes; stalks of individual capitula thinly pubescent; involucre campanulate, 5–10 mm long; phyllaries 5-seriate, purplish especially towards the apex and on upper margins, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–8.2 mm long, the outer acute, the inner obtuse and sometimes slightly expanded at the apex, all apiculate or pungent, thinly arachnoid with brownish hairs.
- Flowers
- Corolla mauve or purple, 7–8.2 mm long, lobes 2–2.7 mm long, glabrous or with a few long apical hairs.
- Fruits
- Achenes brown, cylindric, 2–2.5 mm long, 5–10-ribbed, ascending-pubescent, glandular; outer pappus 0.6–1.2 mm long, inner pappus 5–6 mm long.
- Habitat
- Grassland and swamp grassland; 1200–1800 m
- Distribution
- T1 T2 T4 T6 U2 U3 U4
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Other Data
Vernonia kandtii Muschl. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (1 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Welwitsch [3364], Angola | K000273154 | Unknown type material |
Bibliography
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 46(1-2): 87 (1911)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 658 (1995).
- C. Jeffrey in Kew Bulletin 43: 228 (1988).
- Muschl. in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 46: 87 (1911).
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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