Echinops longisetusA.Rich. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Mesfin, T., Echinops giganteusA.Rich. [family COMPOSITAE ] Echinops steudneriO.Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Sermolli, R.P.,
Related name
Echinops longisetus
Echinops giganteus
Echinops steudneri
Flora
Entry for ECHINOPS longisetus 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 longisetusA. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Abyss. i. p. 450.
Information
Stem erect 6–8 ft. high, puberulous and ribbed above. Upper leaves narrowly elliptical or oblanceolate, pinnatipartite, glabrate above, shortly white-tomentose below, about 9 by 3 in., lobes from a broad base terminating in long stout spinous points, the lower lobes smaller and less approximated. Heads about 1 1/2 in. long (in fruit), very numerous, crowded into a globose head of 4 in. diameter. Outer setaceous bracts long, some nearly reaching the top of the head. Inner involucral bracts about 20, fasciculate-spinous at the tip except the 5 innermost ones which are connate below. Achenes abovoid, pilose. Pappus of approximated narrow ciliate scales rather longer than the hairs on the achenes, connate below.
