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Galinsoga parviflora

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Identification
Galinsoga parviflora Cav. [family ASTERACEAE ]
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  • Galinsoga parviflora

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Entry for GALINSOGA parviflora Cav. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje (Acanthospermum, Ageratum, Aspilia, Atractylis, Blainvillea, Blumea, Carthamus, Cirsium, Conyza, Crepis, Dichrocephala, Distephanus, Echinops, Eclipta, Erlangera, Felicia, Flaveria, Geigera, Gerbera, Grangea, Gutenbergia, Helichrysum, Iphiona, Iphionopsis, Jurinea, Laggera, Litogyne, Osteospermum, Pegolettia, Pentanema, Pseudoblepharispermum, Pseudognaphalium, Psiadia, Pulicaria, Reichardia, Sclerocarpus, Sonchus, Sphaeranthus, Tagetes, Tarchonanthus, Tridax, Vernonia, Volutaria, Xanthium), T. Eriksson (Athroisma, Blepharispermum), N. Kilian (Launaea), S. King-Jones & M. Thulin (Pluchea), Mesfin Tadesse (Bidens), S. Ortiz & J. Rodríguez-Oubiña (Dicoma), and M. Thulin (Cineraria, Doellia, Emilia, Erythroseris, Euryops, Galinsoga, Gynura, Helianthus, Kleinia, Lactuca, Pentzia, Senecio, Solanecio, Verbesina, Zinnia). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
GALINSOGA parviflora Cav. [family COMPOSITAE], (1795). Fig. 370.
Information
Stem up to 50 cm or more tall, glabrous below but hirsute on young growth. Leaves petiolate, ovate, up to c. 6 x 2.5 cm, acute serrate, pubescent. Capitula subglobose; peduncles with hairs less than 0.5 mm long and short glandular hairs; phyllaries ± broadly ovate, up to c. 3.5 mm long. Ray florets c. 5, white, c. 1–2 mm long, 3-lobed. Disk florets yellow. Achenes 1–2 mm long, glabrous or strigose at tip; pappus of several laciniate scales, or absent in ray florets.
Range
N1, 2 native in South America, but now a widespread weed in both tropical and temperate areas.
Altitude range
1450–1700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 8936; Thulin 10748.
Notes
First record for Somalia.

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