Echinops seretiiDe Wild. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Echinops giganteusA.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Lisowski St., 1989
Related name
Echinops longisetus
Echinops kulsii
Echinops giganteus
Echinops nistrii
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Echinops negrii
Echinops francinianus
Echinops steudneri
Echinops velutinus
Echinops seretii
Flora
Entry for ECHINOPS giganteus A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
ECHINOPS giganteusA. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Abyss. i. p. 449.
Information
Stem erect, branched, 6–16 ft. high, branches more or less cottony above, striate or ribbed. Upper leaves obovate, deeply pinnatifid, sparingly strigose-hispid above, whitish-tomentose beneath, about 12 by 6 in, sessile or subsessile, lobes mostly lanceolate deeply toothed, teeth terminating in long spinous points; uppermost leaves elliptical, deeply toothed, smaller. Heads (in fruit) ranging up to 1 1/2 in. long, numerous, in a globose head up to about 3 1/2 in. diam. Outer setaceous bracts not exceeding 3/8 in. Inner involucral bracts about 15, lanceolate or spathulate, many fasciculate-spinous from a knot near the tip; the innermost bracts connate. Achenes glabrescent near the apex. Pappus of numerous contiguous ciliate narrow unequal scales, connate below into a short tube
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Kouaieta and Semiéne, Q. Dillon!
