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Flora
Entry for PLUCHEA odorata Cass. [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
PLUCHEA odorataCass. [family COMPOSITAE], Dict. xlii. p. 3. —DC. Prodr. v. p. 452, cum syn.
Information
Herbaceous? Branches subterete, striate, tomentellous. Leaves oval-oblong, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the base into the petiole, minutely denticulate, puberulous on both sides, 2–5 in. long by 3/4–1 1/3 in. wide, flat. Petioles 1/4– 1/2 in. long. Capitula campanulate-hemispherical, many-flowered, 1/4 in. long, on short pedicels, in dense branched corymbose cymes 4 in. diam. Scales of the involucre pluriseriate; inner linear, acute, glabrous; outer oval or oblong, obtuse, pubescent, shortly ciliate, successively shorter. Receptacle flat, 1/10 in. diam., naked. Achenes small, scattered with minute setæ.
Range
Widely spread in Tropical America.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Perrottet! Lelierre!
Notes
P. senegalensis, Klatt. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. v., xviii. 368, appears to be this species.