Lampropappus turbinellus (S.Moore) H. Rob.

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Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park

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Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Vernonia turbinella S.Moore
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Status:	Native
Description:	Robust perrenial herb with 1-many annual stems, up to c. 1 m high. leaves closely spaced, stiffly leathery, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong or elliptic, up to 12.5 cm long and 9 cm wide, decreasing in size upwards along the stems, whitish hairy on both surfaces, usually more densely so beneath; venation reticulate, raised beneath but sometimes obscured by the indumentum; margins subentire to repand; petiole 2-12mm long, very narrowly winged. Capitula numerous in a terminal head up to 22 cm in diameter. Involucres 10-15 mm wide, obconic-hemispheric. Phyllaries tightly overlapping, leathery, grey hairy where exposed. Corollas cream to mauve-purple, 6-9 mm long, funnel-shaped with lobes up to 3 mm long, hairless. Achenes more or less compressed turbinate, up to 4 mm long, somewhat 3-4-angled, with dense appresed silky hairs; pappus dirty white, well exserted beyond the involucre.
Type location:	DR Congo
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, DR Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
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Literature:	Beentje, H.J. (ed.) (2000). Compositae (Part 1) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 257 - 258. as Vernonia turbinella Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 112. as Vernonia turbinella Malaisse, F., Schaijes, M. & D'Outreligne, C. (2016). Copper-Cobalt Flora of Upper Katanga and Copperbelt Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux Page 149. as Vernonia turbinella (Includes a picture). Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 73. as Vernonia turbinella Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 35. as Vernonia turbinella Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 123. as Vernonia turbinella Robinson, H. (1999). Revisions in paleotropical Vernonieae (Asteraceae) Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 112(1) Page 245.

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