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Berkheya bipinnatifida
echinopsoides
echinopsoides
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Photo: Penny English
Along an overgrown road that used to approach the Juniper Forest from the west, in Nyika National Park.
Photo: Penny English
Along an overgrown road that used to approach the Juniper Forest from the west, in Nyika National Park.
Photo: Penny English
Along an overgrown road that used to approach the Juniper Forest from the west, in Nyika National Park.
Photo: Penny English
Along an overgrown road that used to approach the Juniper Forest from the west, in Nyika National Park.
Photo: Penny English
Along an overgrown road that used to approach the Juniper Forest from the west, in Nyika National Park.
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| Synonyms: |
Berkheya echinopsoides Baker |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Sparingly branched, spiny perennial herb 0.5–3 m tall. Leaves sessile, elliptic to oblong in outline, 5–30 cm long, tapering and petiole-like, or not narrowed towards the base, pinnatilobed to pinnatifid sometimes somewhat bipinnatifid; lobes or segments narrowly triangular or linear-lanceolate, more or less strongly toothed or lobed, thinly araneose above, densely whitish felted beneath; blade widened at the base with spiny auricles; margins spine-toothed. Capitula clustered at ends of branches, 1–2 cm in diameter. Phyllaries narrowly lanceolate, mostly 8–12 mm long, tapering to an apical spine and margins with 2–3 stout spines 2–4 mm long on each side, often smaller spines between the main spines also present. Florets numerous, all discoid; corollas white, c. 10 mm long; achenes obconic-turbinate, 2–3 mm. long, 8–10-ribbed; pappus of c. 20 overlapping oblong scales 0.2–1.5 mm. long. |
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| Habitat: | In miombo and chipya woodland, montane grassland and dambos, often on rocky hillsides and termite mounds. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Eswatini. |
| Malawi distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 27 September 2020 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 82. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 28. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 239. Roessler, H. (1975). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca Area, 5 Subtribe Gorteriinae. Kirkia 10(1) Pages 79 - 81. |
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