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Pulicaria argyrophylla

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Name

Identification
Pulicaria argyrophylla Franch. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Pulicaria argyrophylla

Flora

Entry for PULICARIA argyrophylla Franch. [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
PULICARIA argyrophylla Franch. [family COMPOSITAE], (1882);. type: N Somalia, without precise locality, Révoil 64 (P holo.).
PULICARIA leucophylla Baker [family COMPOSITAE], (1894).
Information
Woody herb or small shrub 15–60 cm high, sometimes procumbent; branches tomentellous. Leaves obovate to spatulate, 15–22´8–11 mm, base long-attenuate but the very base widened, margins dentate to slightly lobed, apex mucronate, lanate to white-tomentellous. Capitula terminal and solitary, on stalks 1–6 cm long; involucre 3.5–5 mm high; phyllaries lanceolate, apiculate, the outer pubescent. Corolla yellow; ray florets absent or present and 4.5–7 mm long, of which the ray 3–5 mm; disk florets 3.7–5 mm long. Achenes 1.2–1.5 mm long, 10-ribbed, sparsely pilose; outer pappus of partly connate scales 0.3–0.5 mm long, inner pappus of few to many bristles 3–5 mm long, flattened.
Range
N2, 3; C2
Altitude range
200–1340 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 1864; Gillett & Watson 23802; Bally & Melville 15500.
Distribution (external)
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Notes
Plants with ray florets have been called var. oligophylla Gamal-Eldin in Arabia. As rays may be present or absent also in Somalia, and without any associated characters, this should probably come into synonymy. Gillett & Hemming 24266 from S1, 89 km on Baidoa–Luuq road, is similar, but the heads are smaller (involucre c. 3 mm high), and the leaves are larger (to 30´12 mm). Kuchar s.n. from C2, 5 km E of Bugda Caqable, alt. 180 m, has even larger leaves (to 40´15 mm).

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