Vernonia polysphaera Baker
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Mpika district, Mutinondo Wilderness Area
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Mpika district, Mutinondo Wilderness Area
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Kalumbila District (prev. part of Solwezi Distr.) Kalumbila mining concession
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Tondwa GMA, Nsama District, Northern Province, Zambia
Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District, Northern Province, Zambia
Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District, Northern Province, Zambia
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Cabobanthus polysphaerus (Baker) H. Rob. (1999) Vernonia homblei De Wild. (1914)
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Perennial herb, erect, 45─120 cm. Stems annual. Leaves subsessile, concolorous, margin serrate to remotely subserrate, glabrous or nearly so. Capitula subsessile in clusters of (1)3-8, capitula-clusters numerous, sessile in the axils of upper stem and branch-leaves. |
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Zambia, D.R. Congo, Tanzania & Malawi |
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Literature:
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Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32
Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 121.
Wild, H. (1978). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 8. Vernonieae (Vernonia). Kirkia 11(1) Page 117.
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2024).
Flora of Malawi: Species information: Vernonia polysphaera. https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=201540, retrieved 10 October 2024
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