Entry for CONYZA podocephala DC. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CONYZA podocephalaDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 387
Information
stem scarcely woody at base, erect or ascending, herbaceous, sparsely setose; leaves obovate, cuneate at base, the lower ones tapering into a petiole, coarsely toothed above the middle, sparsely scabrido-hispid, the uppermost depauperated; branches naked at the summit, 1-headed, thinly hispid; invol.-scales linear-subulate, glabrescent, equalling the disc; male fl. numerous, glabrous, fem. innumerable; recept. honeycombed and toothed.Many-stemmed, diffuse, 1–2 f. high, harsh to the touch. Lower leaves 2 1/2, upper 1–1 1/2 inches long, 3–6 lines wide, the teeth broad and shallow, blunt or sharp. Pedunc. 3–8 inches long, with 2–3 distant bracts. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA At Zw. Stroom and Witbergen, Drege! Caledon R., Burke and Zey.! 807. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.)
