Peucedanum kerstenii

Peucedanum kerstenii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Tribe: Selineae
Genus: Peucedanum
Species: P. kerstenii
Binomial name
Peucedanum kerstenii
Engl.
Synonyms

Anthriscus dissectus C.H.Wright
Peucedanum dissectum (C.H.Wright) Dawe
Peucedanum mildbraedii H.Wolff
Peucedanum wrightii M.Hiroe [1]

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.[2][3][4]

Peucedanum kerstenii is a shrublike[3] "large hardy perennial" [4] 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),[3] and on the slopes of all the larger mountains mixed with Hagenia abyssinica.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Peucedanum kerstenii Engl. record n° 26958" (HTML). African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=26958. Retrieved 2008-05-07. 
  2. ^ Aluka. "Peucedanum kerstenii Engl. [family UMBELLIFERAE"] (HTML). African Plants. Ithaka Harbors, Inc. doi:10.5555/AL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-SPECIES.PEUCEDANUM.KERSTENII. http://www.aluka.org/action/showCompilationPage?doi=10.5555/AL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-SPECIES.PEUCEDANUM.KERSTENII. Retrieved 2008-05-07. 
  3. ^ a b c H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke (2 March 2006). "Common plants of the Rwenzori, particularly the upper zones" (PDF). Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich. Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20080530005602/http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/datenbanken/rwenzori/Rwenzori_desktop.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-06. 
  4. ^ a b c "VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO" (HTML). World Conservation Union. 1984. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20080430220945/http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/virunga.html. Retrieved 2008-05-09.