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Aspilia helianthoides

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Name

Identification
Aspilia helianthoides (Schumach. and Thonn.) Oliver and Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper, 1971 Coronocarpus helianthoides Schumach. and Thonn. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Verbesina guineensis Not on sheet [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Wedelia africana Pers. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by J.M.C. Lange, 1856
Related name
  • Aspilia helianthoides
  • Wedelia africana
  • Coronocarpus unrecorded
  • Blainvillea prieureana
  • Coronocarpus gayanus
  • Verbesina ciliata
  • Verbesina guineensis
  • Wirtgenia multiflora
  • Wirtgenia schimperi
  • Aspilia ciliata
  • Aspilia multiflora
  • Aspilia smithiana
  • Aspilia abyssinica
  • Blainvillea unrecorded
  • Dipterotheca radiate
  • Coronocarpus helianthoides
  • Aspilia africana
  • Blainvillea berrottetiana
  • Wirtgenia abyssinica

Flora

Entry for Aspilia ciliata (Schumach.) Wild [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Aspilia ciliata (Schumach.) Wild [family COMPOSITAE], in Kirkia 6: 41 (1967); Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 624, fig. 192/2 (1985); Lisowski, Asterac. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 191, t. 42 (1991). Type: Ghana, without locality, Thonning s.n. (C, holo., K, photo.!)
Verbesina ciliata Schumach. [family COMPOSITAE], in Schumach. & Thonn., Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 391 (1827)
Blainvillea prieuriana DC. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. 5: 492 (1836); Oliv. & Hiern, F.T.A. 3: 375 (1877); F.P.S. 3: 13 (1956). Type: Senegal, Leprieur s.n. (G-DC, holo.)
Wirtgenia abyssinica Sch.Bip. [family POACEAE], in Walp., Repert. 6: 146 (1846). Type: Ethiopia, near Gapdiam, Schimper 819 (BM, BR!, K!, M, iso.)
Wirtgenia schimperi A.Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 412 (1848). Type: Ethiopia, Tacaze, Djeladjeranne, Schimper 1684 (BM, K!, M, P, iso.)
Aspilia abyssinica (Sch.Bip.) Vatke [family COMPOSITAE], in Linnaea 39: 495 (1875); Oliv. & Hiern, F.T.A. 3: 379 (1877); Muschler in E.J. 50, suppl.: 341 (1914)
Aspilia schimperi (A.Rich.) Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], F.T.A. 3: 379 (1877); F.P.S. 3: 9 (1956)
Aspilia dewevrei O.Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in B.S.B.B. 39, 3: 32 (1901); Muschler in E.J. 50, suppl.: 335 (1914). Types: Congo (Kinshasa), no locality given, Dewevre 898 & 920 (both BR!, SYN.)
Wedelia ringoetii De Wild. [family ], in F.R. 13: 210 (1914). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Shinsenda, Ringoet in Homblé 503 (BR!, SYN.) & Kapiri Valley, Homblé 1103 (BR!, SYN.)
Aspilia helianthoides (Schumach.) C.D.Adams subsp. ciliata [family COMPOSITAE], in Webbia 12: 245 (1956); F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 239 (1963); Wild in Kirkia 5: 205 (1965)
Aspilia helianthoides (DC.) C.D.Adams subsp. prieuriana [family COMPOSITAE], in Webbia 12: 246 (1956); F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 239 (1963); Wild in Kirkia 5: 208 (1965)
Information
Annual herb 0.3–1.3 m high, usually erect; branches sulcate, scabrid-pilose. Leaves (sub-)sessile or petiolate, ovate or narrowly ovate, 3–15 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, base cuneate or rounded and abruptly cuneate, margins subentire or shallowly serrate, apex acute, scabrid on both surfaces; 3-veined from base; petiole absent or to 18 mm long. Capitula in axillary and terminal short corymbs; stalks of individual capitula to 3.5 cm long but usually much less; involucre 3-seriate, 7–18 mm long; outer phyllaries herbaceous, inner scarious, scabrid-pilose; paleae 6–9 mm long with the upper part almost appendiculate, acute or abruptly acuminate, ciliate. Ray florets 5–15, yellow or pale yellow, style absent, ray 4–10 mm long, tube 1.7–3 mm, glabrous; disc florets yellow, 3.5–5.3 mm long, glabrous or nearly so; anther-appendages dark to black. Achenes obovoid, ± compressed, 4.7–6 mm long, pilose; pappus a lacerate cupule to 0.5 mm high and usually without setae, sometimes with 2 setae to 2.5 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2; T 4 widespread in Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and S to Zambia
Altitude range
650–1500 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kigoma District Gombe National Park, Apr. 1961, Siwezi 131! & Kibirizi, Apr. 1994, Bidgood & Vollesen 3168!TANZANIA Mpanda District Mahali Mts, Utahya, 1958, Newbould & Jefford 2362!UGANDA Kigezi District Kayonza, Apr. 1948, Purseglove 2646! & Mitano Gorge, Nov. 1950, Purseglove 3492!
Notes
USES.Roots as minor medicinal for stomach trouble (Newman)CONSERVATION Least concern (LC) This taxon has white, cream or purple corollas in West Africa, and may have white flowers in Ethiopia and Sudan. So far, all our material has yellow flowers. DJNH wonders whether it really is all the same taxon, but Charles Jeffrey (pers. comm.) considers it is.  Lisowski has Aspilia brachystephana O.Hoffm. as a synonym of this taxon, but I have been unable to trace this taxon. The type is said to be Gillet s.n. from Kisantu, collected in 1900. I have not seen this ‘type’.

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