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Cacalia angulata

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Identification
Cacalia angulata Vahl [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Solanecio angulatus (Vahl) C.Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C. Jeffrey, 1984 Cacalia sonchifolia Forssk. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Kleinia angulata (Vahl) Willd. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Emilia angulata (Vahl) DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Johan Lange, 1856
Related name
  • Emilia angulata
  • Kleinia angulata
  • Cacalia sonchifolia
  • Cacalia angulata
  • Solanecio angulatus
  • Cacalia cordifolia
  • Senecio cardiophyllus
  • Roldana sessifolia

Flora

Entry for SOLANECIO angulatus (Vahl) C. Jeffrey [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
SOLANECIO angulatus (Vahl) C. Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE], (1986);
Cacalia angulata Vahl [family COMPOSITAE], (1794). Fig. 359. [type as above]
Senecio bojeri DC. [family COMPOSITAE], (1837);
Crassocephalum bojeri (DC.) Robyns [family COMPOSITAE], (1947). [type as above]
Information
Climbing or scrambling perennial herb or subshrub; stems up to several m long, glabrous, somewhat fleshy. Leaves fleshy, obovate to oblanceolate, 5–20 x 2–10 cm, pinnatifid with a large terminal lobe, ± auriculate at the base, irregularly dentate at the margin, glabrous. Capitula narrowly campanulate in round dense cymes; calyculus of 2–4 bracts, c. 3 mm long; phyllaries c. 7–8, oblong-linear, c. 6–7 mm long, glabrous except for tuft of hairs near the apex. Florets yellow; corolla 7.5–8 mm long, lobes c. 1–1.5 mm long. Achenes 2–2.5 mm long, black, pilose in grooves; pappus white, 5–7.5 mm long.
Range
N1, 2 widespread in tropical Africa southwards to Transvaal and Natal,
Altitude range
1300–1700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA and in Madagascar. Gillett & Heemstra 23649; Wood S/72/138; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 9217.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Comoro Is
Notes
Dalol daiyer (Som.).

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