Herderia truncataCass. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Herderia truncata
Flora
Entry for HERDERIA truncata Cass. [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
HERDERIA truncataCass. [family COMPOSITAE], DC. Prodr. v. p. 13.
Ampherephis senegalensisLess. [family ], in Linnæa, vi. 687.
Information
Diffuse creeping or decumbent annual, not more than 1 ft. high, varying much in indumentum, pubescent hirsute or some specimens nearly glabrous, leafy. Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, rounded at apex, cuneately narrowed at base into short petiole, subentire or with a few teeth above, 1/4–1 1/2 in. long by 1/8– 1/2 in. wide. Capitula terminal, solitary, hemispherical, many-flowered, 1/4 in. wide, with foliaceous bracts at base. Scales of involucre herbaceous; outer oblanceolate or linear-spathulate, adnate below to inner which are confluent 1/2– 2/3 their length and equal the fruit. Achenes glabrous, acutely 3–4-gonous, narrowed below. Pappus squamiform; squamæ 8–12, blunt, ciliate, at length stellate-patent; 1–3 squamæ often elongated, setaceous, 2–3 times longer than the rest.
