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Swertia crassiuscula var. crassiuscula Gilg var. crassiuscula

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & zhouyd @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6886 - 0662
  • 2. East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 45166, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya & gmwachala @ museums. or. ke; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5334 - 0744
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & guangwanhu @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7728 - 7976
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & qfwang @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9143 - 8849 Authors for correspondence

Description

Swertia crassiuscula Gilg var. crassiuscula

Habit: Herb.

Habitat: HZ, AZ, NZ; 2 500–4 600 m. Distribution: IIIa.

Voucher: Kamweti Camp Site to Sagana Camp Site, Alt. 3065 m, 1 Feb. 2015, SAJIT 003069 (HIB).

References: Rehder et al. (1981), Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Nemomissa (2002), Abdi (2013), Agnew (2013).

Notes

Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HIB
Event date
2015-02-01
Family
Gentianaceae
Genus
Swertia
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
SAJIT 003069
Order
Gentianales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Species
crassiuscula
Taxon rank
variety
Verbatim event date
2015-02-01

References

  • Rehder, H., Beck, E., Kokwaro, J. O. & Scheibe, R. (1981) Vegetation analysis of the upper Teleki Valley (Mount Kenya) and adjacent areas. Journal of the East Africa National History Society & National Museum 171: 1 - 8.
  • Young, T. P. & Peacock, M. M. (1985) Vegetative key to the alpine vascular plants of Mount Kenya. Journal of the East Africa National History Society & National Museum 75 (185): 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2028.2004.00514. x
  • Bussmann, R. W. (1993) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): A phytosociological approach with special reference to ecological problems. Ph. D. Thesis, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, 119 pp.
  • Bussmann, R. W. (1994) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): Vegetation, ecology, destruction and management of a tropical mountain forest ecosystem. Ph. D. dissertation, Universitat Bayreuth Startseite, Bayreuth, 252 pp.
  • Nemomissa, S. (2002) Gentianaceae. In: Beentje, H. J. & Smith, S. A. L. (Eds.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 68 pp.
  • Abdi, A. A. (2013) Diversity and distribution of the Afroalpine Flora of Eastern Africa with special reference to the taxonomy of the genus Pentaschistis (Poaceae). Ph. D. Thesis, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, 239 pp.
  • Agnew, A. D. Q. (2013) Upland Kenya wild flowers and ferns, 3 rd edn. Nature Kenya Publications, Nairobi, 733 pp.