Peucedanum kerstenii

Peucedanum kerstenii

Taxobox


regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Apiales
familia = Apiaceae
tribus = Selineae
genus = "Peucedanum"
species = "P. kerstenii"
binomial = "Peucedanum kerstenii"
binomial_authority = Engl.
synonyms = "Anthriscus dissectus" C.H.Wright "Peucedanum dissectum" (C.H.Wright) Dawe "Peucedanum mildbraedii" H.Wolff "Peucedanum wrightii" M.Hiroe cite web
url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=26958
title = "Peucedanum kerstenii" Engl. record n° 26958
accessdate = 2008-05-07
format = HTML
work = African Plants Database
publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica
]

"Peucedanum kerstenii" member of the Apiaceae or carrot family and species of the genus "Peucedanum" makes its home among the giant groundsels ("Dendrosenecio") atop of the mountains of Eastern Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, Ruwenzori Mountains and the Virunga Volcanoes.cite web
url = http://www.aluka.org/action/showCompilationPage?doi=10.5555/AL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-SPECIES.PEUCEDANUM.KERSTENII
title = "Peucedanum kerstenii" Engl. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
accessdate = 2008-05-07
author = Aluka
authorlink = Aluka
format = HTML
work = African Plants
doi = 10.5555/AL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-SPECIES.PEUCEDANUM.KERSTENII
publisher = Ithaka Harbors, Inc
] cite web
url = http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/datenbanken/rwenzori/Rwenzori_desktop.pdf
title = Common plants of the Rwenzori, particularly the upper zones
accessdate = 2008-05-06
author = H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke
authorlink = University of Zurich
date = 2 March 2006
format = PDF
publisher = Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich
] cite web
url = http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/virunga.html
title = VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
accessdate = 2008-05-09
date = 1984
format = HTML
publisher = World Conservation Union
]

"Peucedanum kerstenii" is a shrublike "large hardy perennial" umbel that grows to be 2 meters (6 - 7 feet) tall and found on the Ruwenzori Range in woodlands at altitudes of 3,500 - 4,200 meters (11,000 - 14,000 feet), and on the slopes of all the larger mountains mixed with "Hagenia abyssinica".

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