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Synonyms: |
Cineraria bequaertii De Wild. Cineraria bracteosa O.Hoffm. ex Engl. Cineraria buchananii S.Moore Cineraria densiflora R.E.Fr. Cineraria foliosa O.Hoffm. Cineraria grandiflora Vatke Cineraria kilimandscharica Engl. Cineraria laxiflora R.E.Fr. Cineraria monticola Hutch. Cineraria prittwitzii O.Hoffm. ex Engl. Senecio kirschsteineanus Muschl. Senecio schubotzianus Muschl. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herb, erect or scandent usually less than 1 m high but sometimes climbing up to several meters high. Stems slender, herbaceous, woody and branching towards the base, hairless or sparsely to densely hairy when young. Leaves deltoid to deltoid reniform, mainely up to 6 cm long, distinctly to shallowly lobed, upper leaves often with lateral lobes below the main lamina or appearing as auricles at the base of the petiole, bright green, hairless or hairy when young above, usually hairy beneath especially on veins, or thickly cobwebby; margin coarsely dentate; petiole mostly up to 4.5 cm long, sparsely or densely hairy or cobwebby; basal auricles small or large, coarsely dentate. Capitula few to many in lax branched heads; peduncles up to 44 mm long, hairless or hairy or cobwebby when young. Ray florets usually 5-8, rarely as many as 16; disc florets usually 14-32; corolla 3.5-5.5 mm long, all bright yellow. |
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Derivation of specific name: | deltoidea: shaped like a triangle |
Habitat: | At forest margins, in riverine vegetation, along roadsides or among rocks and in bracken scrub in montane grassland. |
Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 2350 m |
Flowering time: | All year but mainly Jul - Aug |
Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape South Africa. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Wednesday 5 September 2018 |
Literature: |
Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 563 - 565. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 87. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 13. Cron, G.V., Balkwill, K. & Knox, E.B. (2006). A revision of the genus Cineraria (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) Kew Bulletin 61 Pages 468 - 474. (Includes a picture). Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 30. Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Pages 930 - 931. 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 24. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 29. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 51. as Cineraria buchananii Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 88. |
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