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Brocchia cinerea

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Cotula kotschyi Benth. & Hook.f. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Brocchia cinerea (Delile) Vis. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Brocchia cinerea (Delile) Vis. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Cotula cinerea Del. [family COMPOSITAE]
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Name

Identification
Brocchia cinerea Del. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cotula cinerea Del. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S. Koma, 2008
Related name
  • Cotula cinerea
  • Brocchia cinerea

Flora

Entry for COTULA cinerea Delile [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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
COTULA cinerea Delile [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Egypte: 131, t. 47/4 (1813); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 398 (1877); F.P.S. 3: 20 (1956); Alavi, Fl. Libya 107: 176, fig. 49 (1983). Type: Egypt, sandy plains of Giza [Gizeh] and Sakkara pyramids (type unclear)
Brocchia cinerea (Delile) Vis. [family SIMMONDSIACEAE], Pl. Aeg. & Nub.: 35 (1836)
Tanacetum cinereum (Delile) DC. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. 6: 131 (1837)
Information
Low spreading ?perennial herb to 25 cm high; stems branched from the base, white-pubescent. Leaves alternate, spatulate or obovate in outline, pinnatifid with up to 3 pairs of lobes to subentire, 1–4 cm long, 0.6–1.9 cm wide, base a narrow and winged pseudopetiole, margins dentate, apex acute, white-pubescent and glandular on both surfaces. Capitula 5–7 mm long, terminal and solitary on stalks of 2–20 mm long; phyllaries subequal, 2.5–5 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm wide, acute, densely white-pilose; receptacle convex to toroid, slightly tuberculate. Outer florets yellow, with filiform tube 1–1.2 mm long, glandular, with minute lobes distally, style 1–1.3 mm long; inner florets yellow, many, with glandular tube 0.8–1 mm long and lobes 0.4–0.5 mm long, anthers 0.5–0.6 mm long, style ± 1.3 mm long. Achenes oblong, slightly to hardly flattened, 1.6–2 mm long, ribbed, glandular.
Range
DISTR. T 1/4
Altitude range
?1300 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Shinyanga/Nzega District near Sakamaliwa [Sakamalewa], Manonga [Mangonga] R., Oct. 1935, Burtt 5231!
Distribution (external)
; Egypt
Libya
Mauritania
Mali
Ethiopia
possibly Sudan

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