- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus:
- Nidorella Cass.
Nidorella vernonioides Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.
[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrub or small tree, 1.5–9 m high, much branched; trunk at base up to 30 cm in diameter, bark brown and rough with many fine ridges; branchlets cylindrical, the ultimate branchlets 3–9 mm in diameter, white-pubescent or puberulous, distally densely leafy and clothed in marcescent leaves.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves sessile or pseudopetiolate, bunched towards distal end of branches, lanceolate, 6–19 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, base gradually cuneate or attenuate but auriculate or sub-auriculate near the stem, margins denticulate to serrate with callose teeth, rarely subentire, apex acute to narrowly acuminate, puberulous or scabridulous above, tomentellous to thinly pubescent beneath, glabrescent, glandular on both surfaces.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula 5–9 mm long, several together in hemispherical cymes, which in turn are united into large terminal leafy corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 1–4 mm long, pubescent; phyllaries 20–24, the outermost somewhat smaller than the inner, 3–7.5 mm long, 0.4–1 mm wide, the outermost pubescent; receptacle flat or convex, slightly toothed.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Marginal florets yellow, 16–40, tube 1.7–4 mm long, ray erect, 1.3–1.8 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide and rather deeply notched to entire, style 3–5.5 mm long; central florets yellow, 3–11(–19), tube 2.8–4.6 mm long, sparsely pilose and glandular proximally, lobes 0.9–1.2 mm long; anthers 1.8–2 mm long with a triangular appendage; style 4–6.5 mm long, with papillose clavate branches.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes flattened and elliptical to obovoid, 1–2 mm long, pubescent; pappus of many white setae 2.5–5.5 mm long.
- Habitat
- Bamboo zone, Hagenia-Rapanea zone, Erica-Stoebe zone, in glades and forest margins, in damp sites, on ridge crests or steep slopes; 2300–3600(–3750?) m
- Distribution
- K3 K4 K5 K6 T2 U2 U3
[FWTA]
Compositae, C. D. Adams. Flora of West Tropical Africa 2. 1963
- Morphology General Habit
- An erect robust bushy herb 5 ft. or more high with hispid stems
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Yellow florets in heads clustered at the ends of leafy branches
- Ecology
- In montane grassland and woodland margins.
Native to:
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre
- Conyza adolfi-friderici (Muschl.) Wild
- Conyza brevipetiolata (Muschl.) Lisowski
- Conyza gigantea O.Hoffm.
- Conyza vernonioides (Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.) Wild
- Conyza vernonioides subsp. arborea (R.E.Fr.) Lisowski
- Conyza wittei Robyns
- Microglossa brevipetiolata Muschl.
- Nidorella aberdarica R.E.Fr.
- Nidorella adolfi-friderici Muschl.
- Nidorella arborea R.E.Fr.
- Nidorella inuloides R.E.Fr.
- Psiadia inuloides O.Hoffm.
Nidorella vernonioides Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1993 | Fries, R.E. [1332], Kenya | Conyza vernonioides subsp. arborea | K000311635 | Unknown type material | No |
First published in Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 384 (1848)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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