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Blumea aurita

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Name

Identification
Blumea aurita (L.f.) DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.C. Adams, 1955 Conyza guineensis Willd. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Erigeron stipulaceum Schumach. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Blumea guineensis DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by J.M.C. Lange, 1856 Laggera aurita Not on sheet [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Laggera aurita
  • Blumea aurita
  • Blumea viscosa
  • Conyza guineensis
  • Pluchea kotschyi
  • Erigeron stipulatum
  • Blumea bojeri
  • Blumea guineensis
  • Erigeron stipulaceum
  • Conyza senegalensis
  • Conyza aurita
  • Pseudoconyza viscosa
Common name
  • abanaadẹne = vulture’s excrement (NWT, JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Awka)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ompempene (JDES) umpempene (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, PEPEL), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • afũn nena = hunchback’s mother (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • eru-taba = slave of tobacco; meaning not known (Ajayi) (NIGERIA, YORUBA (Ilorin)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • frasâbukonaô (K&A) frâsesâkukunau (K&A) lubuńô (K&A) (SENEGAL, ‘SOCE’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • boylé buti (JB, ex K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • plaaduru (FRI) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ngun, ngun (JB, ex K&A) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bubuńgor (K&A) datotâ (Merlier, ex K&A) lubuñ gor (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • plaaduru (FRI; KD) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CONYZA senegalensis Willd. [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
CONYZA senegalensis Willd. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. Pl. iii. p. 1928. —Sieber Fl. Seneg. Exsicc. n. 42
Blumea senegalensis DC. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. v. p. 449
Blumea guineensis DC. β. foliolosa [family COMPOSITAE], l. c.
Blumea aurita Steetz γ mossambiquensis [family COMPOSITAE], in Peters Mossamb. Bot. p. 437.
Information
Erect branched herb, a foot and a half high or more. Stem and branches striate, pubescent. Leaves obovate or oblong, membranous, pubescent, toothed, ranging up to 2 in. long; the upper ones sessile, amplexicaul, often auriculate at the base. Capitula hemispherical, 1/2– 3/5 in. diam., on pubescent pedicels ranging up to 1 1/3 in., which are slender in flower but become more robust in fruit, arranged in a corymbose leafy cyme. Involucral scales in about 4 rows, more or less pubescent and scattered with small glands at the back, linear-lanceolate, acute, narrow; the inner ones subscarious, the outer smaller, green. Ligule 0. Receptacle depresso-convex, 1/5 in. diam., punctate, not alveolate. Achenes glabrous. Pappus white or nearly so.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Sena, Peters!Senegambia Upper Guinea Rousillon! G. Don! Sieber!

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