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Pluchea odorata

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Name

Identification
Conyza odorata L. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Pluchea odorata (L.) Cass. [family ASTERACEAE ] Conyza purpurescens Sw. [family ASTERACEAE ] Pluchea purpurascens (Sw.) DC. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Conyza not on sheet
  • Conyza purpurescens
  • Pluchea odorata
  • Eupatorium guadalupense
  • Eupatorium not on sheet
  • Pluchea purpurescens
  • Conyza purpurascens
  • Pluchea senegalensis
  • Baccharis not on sheet
  • Conyza odorata
  • Pluchea purpurascens
Common name
  • Saltmarsh fleabane, Flora of North America Vol. 19
  • shrubby camphor-weed, Flora of North America Vol. 19
  • Sweetscent, Flora of North America Vol. 19

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 odorata Cass. [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.

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