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Helichrysum foetidum

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Identification
Isotype of Helichrysum foetidum (L.) Moench [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Helichrysum foetidum (L.) Moench [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Helichrysum foetidum
  • Gnaphalium foetidum
  • Helichrysum zairense
  • Helichrysum petersii
  • Helichrysum ruandense
  • Helichrysum glutinosum
  • Helichrysum kirkii

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM foetidum (L.) Moench [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
HELICHRYSUM foetidum (L.) Moench [family COMPOSITAE], (1794);
Gnaphalium foetidum L. [family COMPOSITAE], (1753). [type as above]
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial herb, 0.3–1.5 m high; stem erect, simple but for the inflorescence, rarely branched near base, thinly pubescent or tomentose and glandular. Leaves sticky and aromatic, sessile, lanceolate to slightly fiddle-shaped, 2–10 x 0.5–2.5 cm, base semi-amplexicaul and slightly auriculate, acute and mucronate, glandular-scabridulous with traces of pubescence above, similar or white-tomentellous beneath. Capitula several to many in leafy corymbs; involucre 6–9 mm long; phyllaries lemon yellow, shiny, multiseriate, 2.5–9 mm long. Florets yellow to orange; outer florets many, in several rows, 2.5–3.6 mm long; inner florets few to many, but generally (much) fewer than the outer, 2.5–3.5 mm long. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm long, glabrous; pappus yellow or white, 3–4 mm long.
Range
N2 widespread in tropical Africa from Nigeria to South Africa,
Altitude range
c. 2100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Boaler 69.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya
Arabia
Spain
Notes
Farah od (Som.).

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