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Illecebrum sessile

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Name

Identification
Alternanthera sessilis (L.) DC. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J. Mears, Illecebrum sessile (L.) L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Alternanthera achyranthes
  • Gomphrena sessilis
  • Alternanthera triandra
  • Achyranthes sp.
  • Alternanthera sessilis
  • Illecebrum sessile

Flora

Entry for ALTERNANTHERA sessilis R. Br. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
ALTERNANTHERA sessilis R. Br. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Prodr. i. 417;—Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 158; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 357; Seubert in Mart. Fl. Bras. v. i. 184, t. 57, fig. 2; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 731.
Alternanthera achyranthoides Hiern [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 896; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 73.
Illecebrum sessile Linn. [family ILLECEBRACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 300.
Information
stem herbaceous, creeping, jointed, slightly pubescent; leaves ovate-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, up to 1 1/4 in. long and 1/2 in. wide, tapering into a short petiole, glabrous or minutely puberulous, entire; heads subsessile in subglobose clusters of 2–4 in the axils of and shorter than the leaves; bracts ovate, mucronate, not spiny; bracteoles a little longer than the bracts; perianth-segments 1 lin. long, ovate, acuminate, minutely denticulate; filaments subulate; staminodes as long as the filaments, subulate, entire; utricle obcordate, slightly longer than the calyx, finely rugose; seed ovoid, much compressed, yellowish. null
Range
Also in Tropical Asia and Australia.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Valley of the Umlazi River, Drège! near Durban, Krauss, 221! Clairmont, Wood, 3839!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Rooiplaat, Miss Leendertz, 765! and without precise locality, Kirk, 111!

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