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Vernonia cinerascens
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River.
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Orbivestus cinerascens (Sch. Bip.) H. Rob. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Laxly branched subshrub, usually less than 1.5 m tall. Stems several, stiffly woody, covered in dense grey, appressed, T-shaped hairs. Leaves singly or in clusters on woolly cushions along the stems and branches, sessile or shortly petiolate, narrowly obovate-spathulate, normally less than 4.5 × 1.2 cm, more or less densely covered with T-shaped hairs; margin finely crenulate-dentate near the apex, otherwise entire. Capitula numerous in terminal heads, purple, disk-florets only. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zimbabwe and northern South Africa. Also in northwestern India. |
| Botswana distribution: | SE |
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| Literature: |
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 29. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 87. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 39. |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Vernonia cinerascens
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