Athroisma stuhlmannii
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Photo: James Varden
Mana Pools, just inland from the Mucheni Camps.
Photo: James Varden
Mana Pools, just inland from the Mucheni Camps.
Photo: James Varden
Mana Pools, just inland from the Mucheni Camps.
Photo: James Varden
Mana Pools, just inland from the Mucheni Camps.
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Polycline stuhlmannii O. Hoffm. |
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| Status: | Native |
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Annual herb 15–90 cm high. Leaves: lamina narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, 3.5–8.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm, glabrous, with 3 main veins from the attenuate base; margin serrate. Glomerules solitary at the nodes, sessile, 9–18 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae present. 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. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia |
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| Images last updated: | Sunday 21 August 2016 |
| Literature: |
Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 547. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 23. |
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