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Vernonia mespilifolia

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Identification
Vernonia mespilifolia Less. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.P. de Candolle,
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Flora

Entry for VERNONIA mespilifolia Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
VERNONIA mespilifolia Less. [family COMPOSITAE], in Linn. 1831, p. 641;—DC. l. c. 29.
Information
shrubby, the young branches, inflorescence, and foliage minutely puberulous; branches round, striate; leaves shortly petioled, much attenuated at base, broadly obovate, coarsely 3–7 or several-toothed, or angularly lobulate at the summit; panicle terminal, compound, its branches densely corymbose; invol. scales ovate oblong, obtuse, round-backed, glabrous, ciliolate; heads 3–5-flowered; pappus fulvous. A half-climbing shrub, drying dark. Leaves membranous, 2–3 inches long, 2 in. wide, thinly puberulous, minutely gland-dotted beneath. Invol. scales pale-horny, neither keeled nor nerved, very obtuse or subacute, either quite glabrous or downy at top. Achenes with silky striæ. Outer pappus very narrow.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Swellendam, E. Z. Forests of Uitenhage, Burchell, Zeyher! Common in Albany and Kaffirland, and at Natal, E. Z., Drege, Bowker, &c. (Hb. D., Sd., Hk.)

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