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Notonia abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Notonia abyssinica A.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Notonia opima S.Moore [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Kleinia abyssinica
  • Notonia abyssinica
  • Notonia opima
  • Cacalia abyssinica

Flora

Entry for KLEINIA abyssinica (A. Rich.) A. Berger [family ]
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
KLEINIA abyssinica (A. Rich.) A. Berger [family ], (1905);
Notonia abyssinica A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], (1848). [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb, up to 1 m or more tall, from a basal tuber; stems glaucous. Leaves fleshy, ± crowded towards base of stem, lanceolate to elliptic or obovate, 3–26 x 1–13 cm, glaucous, with entire margins. Capitula solitary or up to 10 together in lax pedunculate cymes, nodding in bud; calyculus absent or occasionally of a few bracts; phyllaries 8–13(–14), 12–31 x 2–6 mm, almost smooth, minutely pubescent at the apex. Florets bright red, numerous; corolla c. 16–17 mm long, lobes up to 3.5 mm or more long; stigmatic appendages linear, up to 3–4 mm long. Achenes 4–6 mm long, glabrous; pappus white, c. 10–35 mm long.

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