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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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| Habitat: | Occurring in dry open Acacia-Terminalia-Mopane scrub. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zimbawe and northern S Africa. Also in northwestern India. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Saturday 21 February 2009 |
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African Plant Database: Vernonia cinerascensBiodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Vernonia cinerascens
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Vernonia cinerascens
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Vernonia cinerascens
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Vernonia cinerascens
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Vernonia cinerascens
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Vernonia cinerascens
JSTOR Plant Science: Vernonia cinerascens
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Vernonia cinerascens
Tropicos: Vernonia cinerascens
West African Plants database: Vernonia cinerascens
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