Ambrosia maritimaL. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Ambrosia senegalensis
Ambrosia
Franseria ambrosioides
Franseria artemisioides
Ambrosia villosissima
Ambrosia maritima
Ambrosia not on sheet
Common name
nit ńiti (JB; K&A) nonâ ambel (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
matsermama (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (East)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
baàba, báabaà, babbaba loosely applied to plants like indigo or associated with it (JMD; ZOG) baba more (JMD) к̉aiк̉ayi, makarfo, tutubidi (ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
tutu bidi (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
ngâdal nak (JB; K&A) nginé (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
Flora
Entry for AMBROSIA maritima Linn. [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
AMBROSIA maritimaLinn. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. p. 988.
Information
A coarse annual, woody below, 1–3 ft. high, whole plant usually very hairy and hoary, much-branched. Leaves ovate, bipinnatipartite, 1–3 in. long; segments obtuse, sometimes toothed. Capitula subsessile, 1/8– 1/6 in. diameter, 15–20-flowered, in dense spikes, male at the top and often female below, arranged in a pyramidal or corymbose terminal panicle, leafy at least below. Male involucres crenate, shortly hemispherical, hispid with up-curved scattered hairs; fruiting involucre somewhat turbinate and angular, with 4–5 horns at the top.
Range
Widely spread throughout the Mediterranean region.
