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Aspilia schimperi

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Name

Identification
Aspilia ciliata (Schumach.) Wild [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Isotype of Wirtgenia schimperi Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Isotype of Aspilia schimperi (Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.) Oliv. et Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Aspilia schimperi
  • Wirtgenia schimperi
  • Aspilia ciliata

Flora

Entry for ASPILIA Schimperi O. & H. [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
ASPILIA Schimperi O. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
Wirtgenia Schimperi Schultz Bip. [family POACEAE], in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 412.
Information
Erect, more or less branched annual, 1–3 ft. high. Stem and branches strigulose not hispid. Leaves ovate-anceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, connate at the base, denticulate, strigulose, 1–5 by 1/4–2 in.; petioles ranging up to 3/4 in. Capitula campanulate in flower, hemispherical in fruit, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, pedunculate, in lax open leafy cymes. Outer involucral scales herbaceous obtuse linear-oblong, not or scarcely foliaceous, equalling or rather exceeding the florets, strigose. Peduncles ranging up to 2 in. long, strigulose. Ligule of the ray-florets oval, 1/5 in. long, yellowish. Achenes turbinate, 1/5 in. long, silky-villous, spotted, cordate-truncate at apex with a short narrow cup-shaped pappus and 2 long setæ of 1/8 in.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper!Nubia Nile Land fide Schweinf. et Aschers. Enum. p. 287.
Notes
Steetz in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 490 in unites this with the following species.

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