Asteraceae
Berkheya

Berkheya spekeana Oliv.

First published in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 29: 100 (1873)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Nigeria to Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Distribution

Native to:

Cameroon, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • F.T.A. 3: 429.
  • in Trans. Linn. Soc. 29: 100, t. 66 (1873)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • A.D.Q. Agnew, Upland Kenya Wild Flowers p. 489, fig. p. 487 (1974).
  • A.J. Jex-Blake, Some Wild Flowers of Kenya p. 78, fig. 59 (1948).
  • Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 226, t. 96 (1994).
  • Blundell, Wild Flow. E. Afr.: t. 352 (1987).
  • C.D. Adams in Flora of West Tropical Africa ed. 2, 2: 289 (1963).
  • Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux.) 2: 1168 (1960).
  • E. Lind & A. Tallantire, Some Common Flowering Plants of Uganda, ed. 2: 184 (1971).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 10 (1956).
  • Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 2: 566 (1991).
  • O. Hoffm. in Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 419 (1895).
  • Oliv. in Flora of Tropical Africa 3: 429 (1877).
  • Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc., London 29: 100 (1873)
  • Robyns, Flore des Spermatophytes du Parc National Albert 2: 585 (1947).
  • Roessler in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 3: 234 (1959).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 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 2026. 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 2026. 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