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Copyright: Raimundo Mesquita (mesquens)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-07-27 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC LZ7 |
| Exposure: f/2.9, 1/500 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-07-31 2:30 |
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| Points: 6 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Portuguese] |
• Vernonia polysphaera Baker [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1898: 148 (1898); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 43: 235 (1988); G.V. Pope in F.Z. 6: 121 (1992); Kalanda & Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40 (2): 655 (1995). Type: Malawi, near Chitipa (Fort Hill), Whyte (K!, holo.)
• Vernonia homblei De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], in F.R. 13: 207 (1914). Syntypes: Congo (Kinshasa), Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 459 (BR!, syn.) & Homblé 269 (BR!, syn.)
• Cabobanthus polysphaerus (Baker) H. Rob. , in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 112: 228 (1999)
Herb; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile, narrowly oblong, 4–7 cm long, 0.6–1.2 cm wide, rounded at the base, serrate, acuminate, strongly veined, glabrous. Capitula sessile in clusters of up to 5 in the axils of the upper leaves; involucre 9–12 mm long; phyllaries 5-seriate, lanceolate, 3–8.5 mm long, acuminate, pungent, especially the outer white floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. Corolla purple, 9 mm long, lobes 3 mm long, with a few ascending stiff hairs below the apex. Achenes subcylindric, 3–4 mm long, 6–10-ribbed, ascending-pubescent; outer pappus of narrow scales 1–1.8 mm long, inner pappus tawny, of shortly barbellate setae, 6–8.2 mm long. Fig. 47. |
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