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Filago germanica

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Name

Identification
Filago germanica L. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Filago vulgaris Lam. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sánchez, S.A., 2011
Related name
  • Filago germanica
  • Filago abyssinica
  • Filago occidentalis
  • Filago vulgaris
  • Filago capitata
  • Filago canescens
  • Filago pyramidata
  • Filago pygmea
  • Gnaphalium germanicum
  • Gnaphalium hurdwaricum
  • Filago numidica
Common name
  • cotonnière commune, Flora of North America Vol. 19
  • Broadleaf cottonrose, Flora of North America Vol. 19
  • Common cottonrose, Flora of North America Vol. 19
  • cotonnière spatulée, Flora of North America Vol. 19

Flora

Entry for FILAGO germanica L. [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
FILAGO germanica L. [family COMPOSITAE], DC. Prodr. vi. 247.
FILAGO apiculata Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], (Schweinf. & Aschers. Enum. p. 285.)
FILAGO pyramidata Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], (Schweinf. & Aschers. Enum. p. 285.).
FILAGO abyssinica Schultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. iii. n. 1913; Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 432.
Gnaphalium hurdwaricum Wall. [family COMPOSITAE], Cat. n. 2951.
Information
Erect or ascending or (in specimens from other countries) decumbent annual, ranging up to 1 ft. high (tropical African specimens slender, 3–5 in. only); whole plant more or less lanate; branches terete. Leaves linear or linear-spathulate, acute, sessile, subamplexicaul, not decurrent, in our specimens 1/4– 3/4 in. long by 1/16– 1/12 in. wide. Capitula campanulate, subpentagonal, 1/10 in. wide, sessile, many together, crowded in globose heads, 1/3– 1/2 in. diam. Outer ♀ florets only inserted singly in the axil of the outer involucral scales. Receptacle narrow convex closely tuberculate.
Range
Widely distributed in Europe and Asia.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper!

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