Orbivestus cinerascens
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Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River.
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| Synonyms: |
Vernonia cinerascens Sch. Bip. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Laxly branched subshrub, usually less than 1.5 m tall. Stems several, stiffly woody, covered in dense grey, appressed, T-shaped hairs. Leaves singly or in clusters on woolly cushions along the stems and branches, sessile or shortly petiolate, narrowly obovate-spathulate, normally less than 4.5 × 1.2 cm, more or less densely covered with T-shaped hairs; margin finely crenulate-dentate near the apex, otherwise entire. Capitula numerous in terminal heads, purple, disk-florets only. |
| Type location: |
Ethiopia |
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| Habitat: | Dry open Acacia-Terminalia-Mopane scrub. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zimbabwe and northern South Africa. Also in northwestern India. |
| FZ divisions: | SE |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
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 29. as Vernonia cinerascens Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 87. as Vernonia cinerascens Robinson, H. (1999). Revisions in paleotropical Vernonieae (Asteraceae) Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 112(1) Page 231. Robinson, H. (2009). Additions to the Genus ORBIVESTUS H. Rob. (ASTERACEAE: VERNONIEAE) and neotypification of Vernonia teitensis O. Hoffm. Phytologia 91(3) Page 489. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 39. as Vernonia cinerascens |
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