Vernonia potamophila
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Ordo: Asterales
Familia: Asteraceae
Genus: Vernonia
Name
Vernonia potamophila Klatt, 1890 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Vernonia potamophila Klatt, Annal. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien 7: 100. 1890.
Distribution
Congo, Angola, Namibia (Caprivi strip), Zambia.
Descriptions
The initial assumption, based on the robust habit and the described yellowish brown velutinous pubescence of the stems, was of a relationship to the genus Gymnanthemum of the subtribe Gymnantheminae. Other features indicate a different relationship. A high resolution image of an herbarium specimen (PRE; Fig. 2D) as well as an illustration (Fig. 26), show a somewhat keeled involucral bract with a dark median stripe, a character not found in Gymnanthemum. In addition, the pollen totally lacks the strongly developed sublophate pattern that is characteristic of Gymnanthemum (Figs 10 A–C) and instead is sublophate with small incipient lacunae (Fig. 27). The pollen and involucre characters seem to indicate a position in the subtribe Erlangeinae. This is most likely a new genus but without a more comprehensive study of the more northern members of the African Vernonieae we can only say that Vernonia potamophila, while definitely not a true Vernonia, is unplaced as to genus.
An examination of limited fragments showed a few additional characters. The abaxial surface of the leaf has a tomentum of long-armed T-shaped hairs and sweeping hairs restricted to the branches of the style and the juncture of the branches at the shaft of the style. The lobes of the corolla had areolae that were reminiscent of the ducts in the corolla lobes of true Vernonia, but the areolae do not form continuous elongate ducts. Raphids of the achenes were short-rectangular in elongate cells. Chromosome number unknown.
Taxon Treatment
- Robinson, H; Skvarla, J; Funk, V; 2016: Vernonieae (Asteraceae) of southern Africa: A generic disposition of the species and a study of their pollen PhytoKeys, (60): 49-126. doi
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