Isotype of Artemisia abyssinicaSch.Bip. ex A.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Artemisia abyssinica
Artemisia [towinefortii]
Flora
Entry for ARTEMISIA abyssinica Schultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
ARTEMISIA abyssinicaSchultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. iii. n. 1862. —A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 420.
Information
Branches two or more from the crown of the root, herbaceous above, erect, simple or nearly so, 1–2 1/2 ft. high, glabrate or somewhat pubescent. Leaves decompound in capillary divisions, ovate or oval in general outline, 1/3–2 in. long besides the petiole which is short in the case of the upper and elongated in the lower leaves, glabrate or somewhat hoary-hairy. Capitula subglobose, 1/12– 1/8 in. diameter, shortly pedicellate, in short racemes with a leaf at base often about equalling them, arranged in an elongated thyrsoid cyme. Involucral bracts oval obtuse nearly glabrate or somewhat pubescent. Marginal florets female, central ones hermaphrodite, fertile. Achenes obscurely striate, without pappus. Receptacle convex, naked.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Q. Dillon and Petit!
Notes
Schweinfurth in Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. p. 142, gives a variety eriocephala of Schultz Bip. with more cottony heads; also a species A. Schimperi, Schultz Bip. from Abyssinia without description.