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Conyza cinerea

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Name

Identification
Conyza cinerea L. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen,
Related name
  • Cyanthillium cinereum
  • Vernonia cinerea
  • Vernonia not on sheet
  • Conyza cinerea

Flora

Entry for VERNONIA cinerea (L.) Less. [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
VERNONIA cinerea (L.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE], (1829);
Conyza cinerea L. [family COMPOSITAE], (1753);. [type as above]
Cyanthillium cinereum (L.) H. Rob. [family COMPOSITAE], (1990). [type as above]
Information
Annual or perennial herb 15–150 cm tall; stems erect, pubescent to scabridulous with short T-shaped hairs and longer flagelliform hairs. Leaves dark green, ovate to spatulate, 1–12´0.3–5 cm, margins sinuate-serrate or less often subentire, apex obtuse to attenuate, thinly pubescent or scabridulous above, sparsely pubescent and glandular with sunken glands beneath. Capitula in terminal lax corymbiform cymes; involucre 3–6 mm long; phyllaries 3–4-seriate, appressed but becoming reflexed at fruiting, green, often with purplish tips, lanceolate, pubescent and slightly glandular. Corolla mauve, purple or lilac, 3.3–5 mm long, lobes 1–3 mm long, pubescent below apex with ascending hairs, also with capitate glands. Achenes terete or obscurely 5-ribbed, 1.3–1.7 mm long, pubescent; outer pappus of narrow scales, 0.2–0.6 mm long, inner pappus white, 3.3–4.5 mm long.
Range
C2; S1–3 widespread in the Old World tropics.
Altitude range
30–300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Eagleton 88; Terry 3418; Kuchar 17345.
Notes
Sir makaay (Som.). The Somali plants are var. cinerea; other varieties occur further south in Africa.

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