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Conyza floribunda

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Identification
Isotype of Conyza floribunda Kunth [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erigeron floribundus
  • Erigeron bonariensis
  • Conyza chenopodioides
  • Conyza bonariensis
  • Conyza floribunda
  • Conyza sumatrensis

Flora

Entry for Conyza floribunda Kunth [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 20,
Names
Conyza floribunda Kunth [family COMPOSITAE], in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp., 4(fol.): 57. 1818 4(qto.): 73. 1820
Conyza bilbaoana Remy [family COMPOSITAE]
Conyza bonariensis (Linnaeus) Cronquist var. leiotheca (S. F. Blake) Cuatrecasas [family COMPOSITAE]
Treatment Author(s)
John L. Strother
Information
Plants erect, 30–150+ cm, branched mostly distally. Leaves: faces sparsely strigose to hispidulous or glabrate (margins ± ciliolate proximally, hairs erect, on nerves); proximal narrowly oblanceolate to linear, 50–100 × 5–15 mm, toothed or entire; distal similar, smaller, entire. Heads in paniculiform or corymbiform arrays. Involucres 3–4 mm. Phyllaries usually sparsely strigose (at least the outer; margins chartaceous to scarious), outer greenish, becoming reddish brown, lanceolate, shorter, inner stramineous to reddish, lance-attenuate. Receptacles 1–2+ mm diam. in fruit. Pistillate florets 30–40+; corollas ± equaling or surpassing styles, laminae 0 or to 0.3 mm. Disc florets 10–20+. Cypselae pale tan (usually some with reddish nerves), 1–1.5 mm, faces sparsely strigillose or glabrate; pappi of 15–25 white bristles 2–3 mm. 2n = 18; 54 or 56.
Phenology
jun-aug (summer), sep-nov (fall)
Altitude range
10–100 m;
Distribution
MexicoCentral AmericaSouth AmericaEuropeAsiaAfrica.USA Calif.USA Fla.
Discussion
Conyza floribunda is thought to be native to South America.
In some floras of the past 50 or so years, Conyza bilbaoana has been treated as distinct from C. floribunda; in others, C. bilbaoana and C. floribunda have been treated as synonyms of C. bonariensis. For some traits (e.g., indument, phyllaries, florets), members of C. floribunda are intermediate to C. bonariensis and C. canadensis; some specimens that I have called C. floribunda may be hybrids. For example, a robust specimen from Santa Cruz Island, California, was originally labeled “C. bonariensis ×canadensis (?).” Locally (e.g., in Berkeley, California), C. canadensis usually comes into flower as C. bonariensis goes to seed. So far as sampled, C. canadensis is diploid; C. bonariensis is hexaploid. Pollen stainability in the Santa Cruz Island specimen is ca. 99%.
If treated as a variety of Conyza bonariensis, the correct name for the taxon treated here as C. floribunda is C. bonariensis var. leiotheca.
Some botanists, e.g., J. B. Marshall (1974), have treated the nomenclatural types of Conyza floribunda and C. sumatrensis (Retzius) E. Walker (= Erigeron sumatrensis Retzius) as conspecific.
Native/Introduced
introduced;

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