Acilepis kerrii
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Ordo: Asterales
Familia: Asteraceae
Genus: Acilepis
Name
Acilepis kerrii (Craib) Bunwong, Chantar. & S.C.Keeley comb. nov. – Wikispecies link – IPNI link – Pensoft Profile
- Vernonia kerrii Craib, Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1914: 7. 1914.
Type
Thailand, Me Nan, Sop Ngao, rock crevices by river, A.F.G. Kerr 2404 (holotype: K!, isotype: BM!).
Description
Perennial herbs, ca. 30 cm tall. Stems erect, basal branching, inconspicuously ribbed, puberulous. Leaves cauline, 4–6 by 1–2.5 cm, oblanceolate or elliptic, margin slightly serrate, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, chartaceous; both surfaces pubescent; lateral veins 7–10-paired; petioles up to 3 mm long. Capitulescences terminal or axillary, solitary or in loose panicled. Capitula campanulate, 10–11 mm long, subsessile or pedunculate. Involucres campanulate, in 4–5 series, 7–8 mm long. Phyllaries margin piliferous, outer surface nearly glabrous; the outer and the middle ones ovate, apex acute; the inner ones ovate-lanceolate, apex acute. Florets 20–25; corollas funnelform, purple, glandular, corolla tubes 6.5–7 mm long; corolla lobes 2–3 mm long. Achenes narrowly turbinate, ca. 3 mm long, 10-ribbed, puberulous. Pappus bristles, the inner ones 6–7 mm long.
Distribution
Thailand: Chiang Mai, Nan. Endemic.
Specimens examined
Thailand, Me Nan, Sop Ngao, 21 Feb 1912, A.F.G. Kerr 2404 (K, BM); Chiang Mai, Doi Fa Hom Pok national park, 20°2.72'N, 99°8.74'E, 24 Feb 1958, Th. Sørensen, K. Larsen & B. Hansen 1602 (K).
Diagnostic characters
Acilepis kerrii can be distinguished by its subsessile capitula in axillary leaves.
Ecology
Rock cliff by river in hill evergreen forest, alt. 700–1400 m; flowering February.
Vernacular name
Muang Dong (ม่วงดง).
Taxon Treatment
- Bunwong, S; Chantaranothai, P; Keeley, S; 2014: Revisions and key to the Vernonieae (Compositae) of Thailand PhytoKeys, 37: 25-101. doi
