Entry for PHAGNALON Schweinfurthii Schultz Bip. [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
PHAGNALON SchweinfurthiiSchultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hb. Schweinf. Nub. n. 365.
Information
Shrubby below; branches ascending, slender, clothed with close white tomentum. Leaves linear, acute, mucronate sessile, subauriculate-amplexicaul, subentire, green and subglabrate above, more or less hoary-lanate beneath, 1–2 1/2 in. long by 1/12– 1/4 in. wide; margins slightly revolute. Capitula widely campanulate, many-flowered, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam., on slender hoary peduncles 1–4 in. long, bearing a few reduced leaves below, terminal or from the upper axils. Scales of involucre acuminate, apiculate, thinly woolly on the back, persistent; inner linear, outer lanceolate or ovate. Receptacle plano-convex, 3/8 in. diameter.
