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Pulicaria longifolia

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Name

Identification
Pulicaria inuloides (Poir.) DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by E. Gamal Eldin, 1979 Isotype of Pulicaria longifolia Boiss. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Sclerostephane longifolia
  • Pulicaria adenophora
  • Pulicaria longifolia
  • Pulicaria arabica
  • Pulicaria inuloides

Flora

Entry for PULICARIA uniseriata Kilian [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 uniseriata Kilian [family COMPOSITAE], (2003);. type: N3, 130 km NW of “Iskushuban”, 25 km S of “Karin”, Bally & Melville 15678 (K holo.).
Sclerostephane longifolia Wagenitz & Gamal-Eldin [family COMPOSITAE], (1983);. type: N3, 130 km NW of “Iskushuban”, 25 km S of “Karin”, Bally & Melville 15678 (K holo.).
PULICARIA longifolia (Wagenitz & Gamal-Eldin) Kilian [family COMPOSITAE], (1999), nom. illeg., non Boiss. (1856);. type: N3, 130 km NW of “Iskushuban”, 25 km S of “Karin”, Bally & Melville 15678 (K holo.).
Information
Bushy herb or shrublet 12–40 cm high; branches with mixed stalked glands and long hairs, sticky and aromatic. Leaves narrowly obovate, 2–5´0.4–1.2 cm, sessile, base cuneate to subcordate or slightly auriculate, margins entire to distally dentate, apex obtuse and mucronate, densely beset with stalked glands. Capitula solitary, on stalks to 4 cm long; involucre 10–14 mm long and up to 17 mm in diam.; phyllaries lanceolate, 8–12 mm long, glandular and pilose to pubescent. Florets yellow, the outer female and in 1 row, with rays 6–8´1.2–2 mm; inner bisexual, 6.5–10 mm long. Achenes cylindrical, 1.5–1.7 mm long, 8-ribbed, pilose; pappus simple, of bristles 6–7 mm long.
Range
N3 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
30–150 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Barbier 1139; Thulin & Warfa 5575; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Ahmed Osman 10044.

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