Pasaccardoa grantii (Benth. ex Oliv.) Kuntze

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Habit
Sandy open woodland
Kundabwika Falls
Mar 2017
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Flower
Sandy open woodland
Kundabwika Falls
Mar 2017
Photo: Nick Wightman

Habit
Brachystegia woodland
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Mar 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Brachystegia woodland
Tondwa GMA, Nsama District
Mar 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Pasaccardoa dicomoides De Wild. & Muschl Pasaccardoa kaessneri De Wild. & Muschl. Phyllactinia grantii Benth. ex Oliv.
Common names:
Frequency:	Local to locally common
Status:	Native
Description:	An erect slender to laxly bushy annual herb, 20–35 cm tall. Stems leafy, araneose-lanate to roughly puberulous. Leaves with petioles to c. 1.2 cm long; lamina sub-membranous mostly 3.5–7 x 1–2.4 cm, elliptic-oblanceolate, ± obtuse at the apex and cuneate below, margins serrulate with minute callose teeth, upper surface sparsely thinly araneose-lanate to glabrescent, lower surface greyish araneose-lanate, both surfaces densely gland-dotted. Capitula solitary and terminal on branches, usually also 1–3 arranged along the branches on axillary stalks shorter than the involucre; capitula subtended by a whorl of 3–6 large leaf-like bracts, bracts up to c. 5.5 x 1.7 cm, but usually smaller, exceeding the capitulum. Involucres mostly 8–13 x c. 15 mm, spreading to c. 25 mm wide, obconic-campanulate. Phyllaries numerous; the outer from c. 4 mm long, subulate-aristate, tapering into a long stiff squarrose or recurved bristle, araneose-lanate; the inner to c. 12 mm long, linear-lanceolate, tapering to a sharply acute or somewhat aristate apex, margins minutely toothed, particularly near the apex. Ray-florets neuter, corollas deep-red or creamy-white, up to c. 14 mm long, cleft almost to the base, ray erect, narrowly oblanceolate, 3-fid, sparsely glandular outside. Disk-floret corollas deep-red or creamy-white. Achenes 6–8 mm long, subcylindric, 10-ribbed with numerous stiff white hairs ± appressed in the grooves.
Type location:	Tanzania
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	grantii: named after James Grant who collected the type specimen.
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Flowering time:	Jan - Jul
Worldwide distribution:	Zambia, DRC and Tanzania
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Lp,N
Growth form(s):	Annual.
Endemic status:
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 23 July 2024
Literature:	Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 27 - 29. (Includes a picture). Wild, H. (1972). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 3. Mutisieae. Kirkia 8(2) Page 193.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Pasaccardoa grantii
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Pasaccardoa grantii
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Pasaccardoa grantii
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pasaccardoa grantii
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