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Pluchea dioscoridis

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Identification
Isotype of Blumea baccharoides Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pluchea dioscoridis (L.) DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Psiadia modesta
  • Conyza baccharoides
  • Blumea bacharoides
  • Conyza odora
  • Blumea baccharoides
  • Pluchea dioscoridis
  • Conyza dioscoridis
  • Pluchea bojeri
  • Baccharis dioscoridis

Flora

Entry for PLUCHEA dioscoridis (L.) DC. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje (Acanthospermum, Ageratum, Aspilia, Atractylis, Blainvillea, Blumea, Carthamus, Cirsium, Conyza, Crepis, Dichrocephala, Distephanus, Echinops, Eclipta, Erlangera, Felicia, Flaveria, Geigera, Gerbera, Grangea, Gutenbergia, Helichrysum, Iphiona, Iphionopsis, Jurinea, Laggera, Litogyne, Osteospermum, Pegolettia, Pentanema, Pseudoblepharispermum, Pseudognaphalium, Psiadia, Pulicaria, Reichardia, Sclerocarpus, Sonchus, Sphaeranthus, Tagetes, Tarchonanthus, Tridax, Vernonia, Volutaria, Xanthium), T. Eriksson (Athroisma, Blepharispermum), N. Kilian (Launaea), S. King-Jones & M. Thulin (Pluchea), Mesfin Tadesse (Bidens), S. Ortiz & J. Rodríguez-Oubiña (Dicoma), and M. Thulin (Cineraria, Doellia, Emilia, Erythroseris, Euryops, Galinsoga, Gynura, Helianthus, Kleinia, Lactuca, Pentzia, Senecio, Solanecio, Verbesina, Zinnia). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PLUCHEA dioscoridis (L.) DC. [family COMPOSITAE], (1836). Fig. 334.
Information
Shrub up to 3 m high, pilose and glandular, rarely glabrous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 2–7 x 1–3 cm, dentate or entire, attenuate and auriculate at the base. Capitula (4.5–)5–7 mm long, sessile or pedunculate, numerous, forming a dense corymbose panicle; peduncles up to 1(–1.5) cm long. Phyllaries in 4–5(–6) series, fimbriate, the outer ovate, (1.3–)1.5–2.2(–2.5) x (0.5–)0.7–1(–1.5) mm, pilose, glandular, the inner linear, 4.2–5.2 x 0.3–0.6 mm. Florets purple, the outer 2.7–4 mm long, the inner 3–10, (3.5–)4–5(–6) mm long with glandular lobes. Achenes sparsely hairy; pappus c. 3 mm long, of 10–25 bristles. Along streams, rivers and water channels; 50–1750 m; N1, 2; S3; widespread in tropical and subtropical Africa, on the Arabian Peninsula, and occasionally in Australia. Glover & Gilliland 557; Gillett 4615; Ciferri 160.
Notes
Adar, bi-es, irmanaiye (Som.).

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