Bidens chippii explained
Bidens chippii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It belongs to the genus Bidens.[1] The plant was at first named Coreopsis chippii after British botanist Thomas Ford Chipp (1886–1931)). Chipp found it on 11 February 1929 growing in scrub at an altitude of 3125m (10,253feet) on top of Mount Kinyeti in the Imatong Mountains of southern Sudan.[2] [3] [4]
Notes and References
- Web site: Specimen: K000410525 . Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
- Web site: Revision of the Genus Coreopsis . Earl Edward Sherff . Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago . 20 October 1936 . 2011-06-29.
- Moss, Marion Beatrice 1929. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1929(6): 196, as Coreopsis chippii
- Mesfin Tadesse. 1984. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 24(1): 85