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Piloselloides hirsuta

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Name

Identification
Gerbera ovalifolia DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] Gerbera piloselloides (L.) Cass. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Piloselloides hirsuta (Forssk.) C.Jeffrey ex Cufod. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gerbera ovalifolia
  • Gerbera schimperi
  • Piloselloides hirsuta
  • Gerbera piloselloides

Flora

Entry for GERBERA piloselloides (L.) 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
GERBERA piloselloides (L.) Cass. [family COMPOSITAE], (1820);
Arnica piloselloides L. [family COMPOSITAE], (1760). Fig. 318. [type as above]
Arnica hirsuta Forssk. [family COMPOSITAE], (1775);
Piloselloides hirsuta (Forssk.) Cuf. [family COMPOSITAE], (1967). [type as above]
Information
Herb with thick perennial rootstock and fleshy roots; crown of rootstock densely woolly. Leaves prostrate or semi-prostrate, obovate, broadly elliptic or ovate, 5.5–30´1–8 cm, apex obtuse to rounded, sometimes acuminate, ± densely cottony-pilose beneath, scattered-pilose to almost glabrous above, with brownish-hairy margins. Scapes 1–3 from each rosette, 7–95 cm long, ± tomentose in lower part, the uppermost ± 2 cm immediately below the capitulum inflated and very densely tomentose with usually golden-brown hairs; involucre 16–28 mm long; phyllaries green or purplish, lanceolate, acute, densely brownish-pilose. Outer florets female, corolla 12.5–15.5 mm long, with the outer lip ray-like, 5–10 mm long, white usually tinged pink to maroon on the outside, at least at the apex; outermost inner florets female, innermost bisexual, corollas white, 7.5–11 mm long, lips subequal. Achenes minutely pubescent, ± 3-angled with 5–7 prominent ribs, attenuate into a long beak, 8–11(–19) mm long; pappus of tawny bristles 7.5–9 mm long.
Range
N2 Cameroun, Sudan, Ethiopia and south to South Africa, Yemen and east to south China and Java.
Altitude range
1400–2050 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Collenette 367; Newbould 958; Bally & Melville 16006.

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