Emilia hockii (De Wild.) & Muschl.) C. Jeffrey

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Emilia hockii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park.

Emilia hockii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park.

Emilia hockii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park.

Emilia hockii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park.

Emilia hockii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park.

Emilia hockii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park.

Emilia hockii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park.

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Synonyms: Senecio hockii De Wild. & Muschl.
Senecio rogersii S. Moore
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Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Perennial herb, up to 30 cm tall, growing from a creeping rhizome. Leaves mostly basal, sessile, somewhat fleshy, grey-green, narrowly obovate-elliptic, up to 5 cm long. Scapes 1-4 with single-headed terminal capitula. Involucre cylindrical, 11-14 mm long and c. 5.5 mm in diameter. Ray-florets absent. Disc florets yellow to orange, 7-11 mm long. Achenes c. 5 mm long, hairy, with a pappus 7-9 mm long.
Type location:
DRC
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: hockii: named after A. Hock, who collected the type specimen in Congo in 1911.
Habitat: In regularly burned grassland, along roadsides and in cultivated fields.
Altitude range: (metres) 1500 - 2250 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: CAR, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
National distribution:
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Literature:

Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 579 - 580.

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 93.

Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Page 912.

Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 30.


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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Emilia hockii
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The DRC flora team (2025). Flora of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Species information: Emilia hockii.
https://www.drcongoflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=231750, retrieved 1 April 2025

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