Vernonia syringifolia
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Along northern loop, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along northern loop, Nyika National Park
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| Synonyms: |
Vernonia calongensis Muschl. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Sparsely branched or scandent shrub with stems to c. 6 m long. Branches alternate, striate, glandular and pubescent with short-stalked T-shaped hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, up to 13 cm long, thinly textured, often somewhat cordate in lower leaves or sometimes narrowly decurrent on petiole, sparsely hairy to scabridulous on both surfaces; margin finely serrate; petiole 1–3 cm. long. Capitula numerous, grouped in moderately dense clusters 3–6 cm across, borne in the upper leaf axils, or capitula in large terminal compound heads; capitula stalks mostly 1–10 mm long, sometimes to c. 40 mm long. Involucres to c. 6 x 6 mm., spreading to c. 10 mm wide; phyllaries few-seriate, outer linear-lanceolate, 2–4 mm long, inner narrowly oblong-elliptic, up to 6 mm long, sometimes with a hyaline margin. Florets 15–20 per capitulum, narrowly funnel-shaped, c. 6 mm long, pale-mauve to whitish, sweetly-scented. Achenes narrowly subcylindric, 2.5–3 mm long, tapering slightly to base, sharply narrowly 5-ribbed, glandular, pale-brownish; outer pappus fringe-like, of narrow minute lacerate scales, inner of white barbellate setae 5–6 mm long. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | syringifolia: with leaves like a Syringa. |
| Habitat: | At margins of (sub)montane evergreen forest. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
| FZ divisions: | E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Monday 5 November 2018 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 112. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 35. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 78 - 80. (Includes a picture). |
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