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Pegolettia senegalensis

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Identification
Pegolettia senegalensis Cass. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Pegolettia senegalensis Cass. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Pegolettia dubiefiana
  • Iphiona unrecorded
  • Kuhnia arabica
  • Conyza pungens
  • Pegolettia mucronata
  • Chrysocoma mucronata
  • Pegolettia senegalensis
  • Staehelina spinosa
  • Conyza unrecorded

Flora

Entry for PEGOLETTIA senegalensis Cass. [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
PEGOLETTIA senegalensis Cass. [family COMPOSITAE], (1825). Fig. 346.
Information
Perennial herb, sometimes with slightly woody base, 5–30 cm high, much-branched; stems glandular and scabridulous-hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly obovate, 0.5–3.5(–5) x 0.1–0.3 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire or with few teeth, apex obtuse and mucronate, acute or 3-toothed, viscid-glandular and scabridulous on both surfaces. Capitula solitary on small branches but these forming small to large lax leafy corymbs; involucre 5–10 mm long; phyllaries green with yellow tips, pointing upwards, after achenes have fallen reflexed, lanceolate, 2–10 mm long, acute, scabridulous and glandular. Florets pale yellow, 14–30, all bisexual, 3.3–5.2 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 3.7–4.5 mm long, ribbed, pilose and sparsely glandular; pappus white, 5–6 mm long, plumose, with an outer row of deeply incised scales to 2 mm long.
Range
N1; S3 most of dry tropical Africa from Algeria to South Africa, Arabia, Pakistan, India.
Altitude range
1150–1450 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 9930; Gillett 4265; Hemming 2128.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Kenya

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