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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
For descriptions see World Flora Online |
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not designated |
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| Habitat: | In boggy grassland on black cotton soil, sometimes in bushy grassland, secondary woodland or in evergreen woodland on anthills. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1800 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Sierra Leone to DR Congo, Burundi, Ethiopa, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi Zambia and also in tropical Asia. |
| FZ divisions: | S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 700 - 701. Hind, D.J.N., Beentje, H.J. & Loeuille, B.F.P. (2026). Compositae - Senecioneae Flora Zambesiaca 6(4) Pages 88 - 89. Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Page 930. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 66. |