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Heliotropium scotteae Rendle

  • 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

Heliotropium scotteae Rendle

Habit: Herb.

Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 100 m. Distribution: IIIb.

Voucher: Near Lake Nkuga, Alt. 1 841 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003831 (HIB).

References: Verdcourt (1991), Bussmann (1993, 1994).

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 78, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HIB
Material sample ID
SAJIT 003831
Event date
2015-08-08
Verbatim event date
2015-08-08
Scientific name authorship
Rendle
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Boraginales
Family
Heliotropiaceae
Genus
Heliotropium
Species
scotteae
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Verdcourt, B. (1991) Boraginaceae. In: Polhill, R. M. (Ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 125 pp.
  • 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.