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Solanecio mannii
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Leopard Rock Game Reserve, Vumba
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Path to Mermaids Falls, Aberfoyle
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Bridal Veil Falls, Chimanimani
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Bridal Veil Falls, Chimanimani
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Top of Hill Complex, Great Zimbabwe
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Top of Hill Complex, Great Zimbabwe
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Top of Hill Complex, Great Zimbabwe
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Top of Hill Complex, Great Zimbabwe
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Top of Hill Complex, Great Zimbabwe
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Leopard Rock Game Reserve, Vumba
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Crassocephalum mannii (Hook. f.) Milne-Redh. Crassocephalum multicorymbosum (Klatt) S. Moore Senecio acervatus S. Moore Senecio bogoroensis De Wild. Senecio congolensis De Wild. Senecio mannii Hook. f. Senecio morrumbalensis De Wild. Senecio multicorymbosus Klatt |
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Shrub or small soft-wooded, tree, often much branched, to 7 m. Branchlets with very conspicuous pale leaf scars. Leaves crowded at ends of the branches; petiole to 2 cm; lamina 12-20(-40) × 4-8 cm, simple, oblong-elliptic, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent beneath; margin serrate. Inflorescence a large branched dense terminal panicle. Flowers yellow, unpleasantly scented in c.6-flowered capitula. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | mannii: after Gustav Mann (1836-1916), British colonial representative in the Gulf of Guinea, who collected plants in that area. |
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| Flowering time: | Sep - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia and South to Angola and Mozambique. |
| Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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| Literature: |
Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 678 - 679. (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 107. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 1022. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 52. Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 1148. 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 35. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 29. As Senecio mannii Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 278. As Crassocephalum mannii Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Pages 922 - 923. 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 28. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 33. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 58. White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press. Page 428. As Senecio multicorymbosus White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 206. as Senecio mannii |
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