Asteraceae
Centaurea

Centaurea praecox Oliv. & Hiern

First published in Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 438 (1877)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical Africa. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Mozambique

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Chev. Bot. 376.
  • in F.T.A. 3: 438 (1877)

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 228, t. 97 (1994).
  • C. Jeffrey in Kew Bulletin 22: 134 (1968).
  • C.D. Adams in Flora of West Tropical Africa ed. 2, 2: 291 (1963).
  • Cribb & Leedal, Mountain Flow. S. Tanz.: 153, t. 40c (1982).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 15 (1956).
  • G.V. Pope in Flora Zambesiaca 6: 55, t. 12 (1992).
  • Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr.: 596 (1991).
  • Oliv. & Hiern in Flora of Tropical Africa 3: 438 (1877).
  • Philipson in Journal of Botany 77: 231 (1939).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2009 Abeid, Y.S.; Pondamali, T.A. [2084] Tanzania K000614933 Yes
Walters, J.A.S. [2304] Zimbabwe K001790507 Yes
Goyder, D.J.; Maiato, F. [9146] Angola K001636121 Yes
Chevalier, A.J.B. [24497] Mali K000391816 Yes
K000418529 Unknown Type Material Yes
Barter [1223] Nigeria K000418534 Unknown Type Material Yes
Craster, O. [12] Zimbabwe K002022333 Yes
Schweinfurth, G. [2657] Sudan K000418530 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0