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Psiadia arabica

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Name

Identification
Conyza punctulata DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Psiadia punctulata Vatke [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Baccharis vernicata unrecorded [family COMPOSITAE ] Psiadia arabica Jaub. & Spach [family COMPOSITAE ] Nidorella punctulata DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Conyza vernicata unrecorded [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Psiadia punctulata
  • Conyza delagoensis
  • Baccharis resiniflua
  • Conyza punctulata
  • Nidorella conyzoides
  • Psiadia arabica
  • Conyza vernicata
  • Nidorella punctulata
  • Baccharis vernicata

Flora

Entry for PSIADIA punctulata (DC.) Vatke [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
PSIADIA punctulata (DC.) Vatke [family COMPOSITAE], (1877);
Nidorella punctulata DC. [family COMPOSITAE], (1836). Fig. 356. [type as above]
PSIADIA arabica Jaub. & Spach [family COMPOSITAE], (1852).
Information
Shrub or woody herb, 0.5–2.5 m high, much-branched; branches 4–5-angled or -ribbed, minutely glandular, viscid. Leaves often shiny with viscid exudate, petiolate, lanceolate, 3–14´0.5–3(–4) cm, margins entire (rarely dentate), often undulate and sometimes slightly inrolled, minutely glandular, viscid. Capitula several united in tight hemispherical cymes, several or many of which are united in terminal leafy dense corymbs; phyllaries yellow-green, ± 18, 3–5-seriate, lanceolate, 1–4 mm long. Outer florets yellow, 16–36 in one or two rows, tube 1.3–2 mm long, minutely dentate at the apex or with a ray to 0.2 mm long, or with a ray and 1–2 lateral teeth; inner florets yellow, 7–9, tube 2–3.2 mm long, lobes 0.5–0.9 mm long. Achenes of ray florets cylindrical, 0.9–1 mm long, pubescent; achenes of disk florets aborted, 0.4–1 mm long; pappus of minutely barbellate bristles 2–3.3 mm long.
Range
N1–3; S1
Altitude range
1100–1750 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4425; Beckett 935; Thulin & Warfa 5863.
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Ethiopia
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
Angola
Botswana
South Africa
Arabia
Notes
Cidoc, has chad, miriagani/meriagani/muriagana, naila subka, wela subke (Som.).

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