- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus:
- Bidens L.
Bidens rueppellii (Sch.Bip.) Sherff

[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herb or subshrub 1–2(–3) m high, erect, with several stems from a thickened rootstock; stems sparsely hispid.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves ovate in outline, pinnatipartite to rarely bipinnatisect, up to 14 cm long, up to 9 cm wide, the primary segments ovate to narrowly lanceolate, margins serrate, hispid all over, rarely glabrous but for the margin.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula in few-headed lax terminal cymes; stalks of individual capitula to 12 cm long; involucre 5–11 mm long; outer phyllaries 9–13, green, pubescent, inner phyllaries 9–15, light brown, puberulous; paleae 5–8 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Ray florets yellow, pistillate and fertile, 11–13, tube 1–2.4 mm long, rays 13–27 mm long; disc florets 3.8–5.5 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes black or grey, 3.4–6 mm long, strigose; aristae 2, 0.3–2.1 mm long, antrorsely barbed, sometimes falling early.
- Habitat
- ot given for East African specimens, in Ethiopia on rocky mountain slopes, forest margins, river-banks; 2250–2800 m
- Distribution
- K1 K3 K5
Native to:
Ethiopia, Kenya
Bidens rueppellii (Sch.Bip.) Sherff appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1987 | Diespecker [s.n.] | K000311740 | holotype | No | |
Jan 1, 1983 | Schimper [329], Ethiopia | K000410530 | holotype | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1983 | Diespecker [s.n.] | K000311739 | No | ||
Jan 1, 1983 | Battiscombe, E. [945], Kenya | K000311737 | holotype | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1983 | Diespecker [s.n.] | K000311741 | No | ||
Diespecker [s.n.] | K000311738 | Unknown type material | Yes |
First published in Bot. Gaz. 90: 389 (1930)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- A.D.Q. Agnew, Upland Kenya Wild Flowers p. 466 (1974).
- Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 218 (1994).
- Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg.) p. 1141 (1967).
- Mesfin in Kew Bulletin 48: 469 (1993).
- Mesfin in Symb. Bot. Upsal. 24, 1: 81, fig. 42 (1984)
- Sherff in Bot. Gaz. 90: 389 (1930)
- Sherff in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 16: 616, fig. 181 (1937).
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