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Asteriscus graveolens

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Identification
Asteriscus graveolens (Forssk.) Less. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Buphthalmum odorum Schousb. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Odontospermum stenophyllum
  • Buphthalmum odorum
  • Buphthalmum graveolens
  • Asteriscus graveolens
  • Asteriscus odorus
  • Bubonium graveolens

Flora

Entry for ODONTOSPERMUM graveolens Schultz Bip. [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
ODONTOSPERMUM graveolens Schultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Webb et Berth. Phyt. Canar. ii. p. 232.
Buphthalmum graveolens Forsk. [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. p. 151 (1775).
Asteriscus graveolens DC. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. v. p. 486 (1836).
Information
Shrubby, much-branched, ranging up to 1 1/2 ft. high. Branches rigid, whitish, obsoletely velvety. Leaves pinnately lobed or remotely toothed, often mucronate, sessile, more or less narrowed above the cordate-amplexicaul base, hoary, viscid or shortly hairy, ranging up to 2 in. long. Capitula hemispherical, terminal and subsessile in the forks of the lateral branches, 1/3– 1/2 in. diameter, usually involucrate with 1–3 floral leaves at the base. Involucral bracts ovate, puberulous; the outermost linear, mucronate or apiculate, foliaceous. Florets yellow; ligule acutely toothed at the apex, shortly exceeding the disk. Achenes hairy on the ribs.
Distribution
Soudan North Central Beurmann, fide Schweinf. Ber. Beurm. Pfl. in Zeitschr. Allg. Erdk. xv. p. 300 (1863).
Distribution (external)
Egypt
Arabia

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