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Aspilia mossambicensis

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Name

Identification
Aspilia mossambicensis (Oliv.) Wild [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Wedelia diversipapposa S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Wedelia africana
  • Wedelia affinis
  • Aspilia aspilioides
  • Wedelia katangensis
  • Aspilia natalensis
  • Aspilia holstii
  • Aspilia tanganyikensis
  • Wedelia menotriche
  • Aspilia mossambicensis
  • Wedelia evansii
  • Aspilia vernayi
  • Wedelia diversipapposa
  • Coreopsis aspilioides
  • Wedelia instar
  • Aspilia gillettii
  • Wedelia mossambicensis
  • Aspilia chrysops
  • Aspilia ritellii

Flora

Entry for ASPILIA mossambicensis (Oliv.) Wild [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
ASPILIA mossambicensis (Oliv.) Wild [family COMPOSITAE], (1966);
Wedelia mossambicensis Oliv. [family ], (1873). Fig. 382. [type as above]
Wedelia abyssinica Vatke [family ], (1875).
Aspilia chrysops S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], (1900).
Aspilia ritellii Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Alessandra” I., Tozzi 280 (FT holo.).
Information
Herb or shrub 0.5–1 m or straggling bush to 2.5 m high; branches scabrid. Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, ovate or elliptic, 2–12´1–3 cm, base cuneate, margins entire or serrate, apex acute or attenuate, scabrid on both surfaces, somewhat 3‑nerved from base; petiole up to 1 cm long. Capitula in loose paniculate corymbs, on stalks to 7 cm long; involucre 4–7 mm high; outer phyllaries yellowish near base, green near apex, hispid‑pubescent; paleae 5–7 mm long, keeled with a dark midrib. Ray florets 8–13, bright yellow, rays 6–20 mm long, glabrous or pubescent above; disk florets yellow, 5–6.5 mm long, often with dark stripes along the tube. Achenes brown, obovoid, 4–5 mm long, pilose; pappus of several connate scales to 0.4 mm long and 1–2 barbellate aristae 1–3 mm long.
Range
N1; C2; S1–3 Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and south to South Africa.
Altitude range
15–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6855; Kazmi & al. 185; Kuchar 15334.
Notes
Daaro, daré, far-dar, luuban-duureed (Som.).

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