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Helichrysum schimperi

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Identification
Helichrysum schimperi (Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.) Moeser [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Achyrocline adoensis Sch.Bip. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Helichrysum ovato-ellipticum
  • Helichrysum sarmentosum
  • Gnaphalium schimperi
  • Helichrysum schimperi
  • Achyrocline adoensis
  • Helichrysum galbanum
  • Achyrocline schimperi
  • Helichrysum nyasicum
  • Helichrysum auriculatum

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM schimperi (A. Rich.) Moeser [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
HELICHRYSUM schimperi (A. Rich.) Moeser [family COMPOSITAE], in E.J. 44: 244 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 152 (1949); F.P.S. 3: 35 (1956); Maquet in Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 3: 609 (1985); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 79, t. 14/a-e (1989); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 211, t. 86 (1994); Mesfin & T. Reilly in D.J.N. Hind et al. (eds), Adv. Comp. Syst.: 433 (1995). Type: Ethiopia, Mt Scholoda, Schimper 393 (K!, lecto., BM!, iso.)
Achyrocline schimperi A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 428 (1848); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 340 (1877)
Achyrocline adoensis A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 428 (1848). Type: Ethiopia, Mt Scholoda, Schimper 41 (P!, holo., BM!, K!, iso.)
Gnaphalium schimperi (A. Rich.) Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.: 149 (1867)
Gnaphalium schimperi Sch. Bip. var. stramineum [family COMPOSITAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.: 149 (1867), as straminea . Type: Ethiopia, Debre Eski, Semen, Nov. 1850, Schimper s.n. & Dschadscha, Oct. 1854, Schimper s.n. (both P!, syn.)
Helichrysum sarmentosum O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in P.O.A. C: 411 (1895); Moeser in E.J. 44: 243 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 152 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Kilimanjaro, above Marungu, Volkens 1560 (B†, holo., BM!, iso.)
Helichrysum nyasicum Baker [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1898: 150 (1898). Syntypes: Malawi, Zomba, 4000–6000', Whyte s.n. (K, syn., not seen) & Shire highlands, Buchanan 313 (not seen), 341 (K!, syn.), 812 (not seen)
Helichrysum galbanum S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.L.S. 37: 169 (1905). Type: Uganda, Kigezi District, Rukiga [Ruchigga], Bagshawe 454 (BM!, holo.)
Helichrysum schimperi (Sch. Bip.) Chiov. var. stramineum [family COMPOSITAE], Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 65 (1935)
Helichrysum ovato-ellipticum De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE], Pl. Bequaert. 5: 64 (1989). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Bukumba, Bequaert 5272 (BR!, lecto.)
Information
Perennial herb, woody herb or shrublet, erect with scrambling branches to 3.6 m high, or the whole plant decumbent and straggling; stems grey-green, with flaking white-woolly pubescence. Leaves grey-green, white or silvery beneath, ovate or lanceolate, with a petiole 2–17 mm long, blade 2–12 cm long, 1–7 cm wide, base cuneate or attenuate (rarely subcordate and abruptly attenuate), margins crenate or less often dentate, apex acute or acuminate, arachnoid-pubescent but glabrescent above, tomentose beneath; sometimes strongly 3-veined from the base. Capitula 2–4 mm long, homo- or heterogamous, several together in dense clusters which in turn are grouped to several orders, forming dense corymbose or globose cymes terminating branches, the axes tomentose; stalks of individual capitula≤1 mm long; receptacle very narrow; phyllaries in few series, imbricate, silvery white or pale yellow or sometimes (especially inK3) with a pink or reddish tinge, the outer ovate, the inner lanceolate, 1.5–4 mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, acute, pubescent near the base. Florets pale yellow, 4–7; outer florets 0–2, tube filiform, 1.8–2.2 mm long, wider at base, minutely toothed and glandular distally, style 2.2–2.3 mm long; inner florets 3–5, tube cylindric, 2–2.5 mm long, 4-lobed with lobes 0.2–0.4 mm long and often glandular, anthers 0.7–1 mm long, style 2.1–2.5 mm long. Achenes oblong, 0.6–0.9 mm long, glabrous; pappus caducous, 2–3.5 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 1–4; K 1, 3–6; T 2, 3, 6–8
Altitude range
(900–)1350–3300 m
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Mt Kadam [Debasien], 1936, Eggeling 2790!;KENYA Northern Frontier District Mt Kulal, Gatab, Nov. 1978, Hepper & Jaeger 6850!TANZANIA Masai District Ngorongoro Crater wall, July 1989, Chuwa 2824!;UGANDA Ankole District Rugongo, Jan. 1971, Rwaburindore 535!;UGANDA Mbale District Elgon, Butandiga Lodge, Mar. 1951, G. Wood 152!KENYA N Kavirondo District Elgon, Malakisi R., Jan. 1935, Dale 3416!;KENYA Machakos District Kilungu, Aug. 1971, Mwangangi 1707!TANZANIA Morogoro District Lukwangule, Mar. 1955, Semsei 1976!;TANZANIA Iringa District 20 km S of Mafinga, Jan. 1989, Gereau & Lovett 2789!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Sudan
Ethiopia
Socotra
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Notes
Plants from the upper end of the altitude range may have a different “look”, e.g. Grimshaw 94/48 and 94/67 from Kilimanjaro's bamboo zone. But specimens such as Tweedie 4189 and 4191 (from the Cherangani at 2950 m) are intermediate between this form and the bulk of our material.

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