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Pupalia lappacea

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Name

Identification
Pupalia lappacea (L.) A.Juss. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Burrows, J.E.,
Related name
  • `var. velutina
  • Achyranthes unrecorded
  • Desmochaeta mollis
  • Achyranthes scandens
  • Pupalia lappacea
  • Desmochaeta flavscens
  • `velutina
  • Desmochaeta flavescens
  • Pupalia lappaceae
  • Pupalia orbiculata
  • Achyranthes mollis
  • Pupalia atropurpurea
  • Pupalia sericea
  • Achyranthes lappacea
Common name
  • ńadâg (JB, ex K&A) ñèpñèp (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kebbe jodde (PF) (NIGER, FULA-FULFULDE (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • norna ba (JB, ex K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • koruntiya (GHANA, DAGBANI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ńagobéré (K&A) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ìkọ̀η˚ (RFGA; Lowe) (NIGERIA, EFIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kebbe jodde (MM) nyakkabre (MM) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • agbiriba (JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ñtụ̀rụ̀m òkụ̄kọ́, ọ̀kụ̄kọ̀: fowl (FRI; KW) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Uzuakoli)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ósè, ósò: general name for ‘pepper’ (NIGERIA, IGBO (Owerri)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dánká dáfí (AST) maďaďďafin kuúsuù = mouse’s bur (auctt.) marin kuúsuù = mouse’s shackles (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amyole (?) (GHANA, NZEMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kaimin kadangari (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (East)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • emọ́ àgbò = ram’s bur (JMD; IFE) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dènjìrìm-denjí (pl. -ó) (D&C) (NIGER, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • apupũa, mpupuã (FRI; Enti) (GHANA, AKAN-AKUAPEM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akyerenkura = catcher of mice, referring to the use of the fruit for this purpose (FRI) apσsσmpσ (FRI) mpupuã (Enti) (GHANA, ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akukuaba (FRI) ekukuaba (FRI) (GHANA, FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akyere-nkura = catcher of mice (FRI) apupua (Enti) mpupua (FRI) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • daboyeju (GHANA, GUANG-NCHUMBULU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • memleŋte (FRI) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • n^apèntan = that which sticks (auctt.) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nro-nrobaha (K&B) (IVORY COAST, MANDESG-DYULA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • apopo amli (K&B) apopo aubri (K&B) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mitsimitsi (GHANA, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PUPALIA lappacea Juss. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
PUPALIA lappacea Juss. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Par. ii. [1803] 132;—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 331; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 217; Hook. Niger Fl. 494; Garcke in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 504; Aschers. in Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 180; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 93, figs. E, H, and 108; in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 164, v. Append. iii. 65, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207; Durand & De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 85; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 724; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Trop. Afr. vi. i. 47.
PUPALIA styracifolia Juss. ex Steud. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Nomencl. ed. i. 269, 669.
Achyranthes lappacea Linn. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 204.
Desmochæta flavescens DC. [family ], Cat. Hort. Monspel. 1813, 102.
Pupal lappacea Hiern [family ], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 891.
Pupal-Valli Rheede Hort. [family ], Malab. vii. 81, t. 43.
Information
a large straggling undershrub; branches terete, tomentose; leaves 1 1/4–4 in. long, 1/2–2 in. wide, elliptic or ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded or shortly cuneate at the base, finely apiculate, tomentose on both surfaces, ciliate; main nerves conspicuous beneath; petioles 1/10– 1/4 in. long; flowers in close or distant clusters arranged in terminal spikes 4–10 in. long; rhachis tomentose; bracts ovate, acuminate, pungent; villous, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; bracteoles ovate-oblong, apiculate, concave, 1/5 in. long, 1/8 in. wide; sterile flowers subtended by a small lanceolate bract, reduced to bunches of unequal stellately spreading hooked awns, woolly below, enlarged and yellow in fruit; perianth-segments 1/5 in. long, lanceolate, aristate, 3-nerved, densely clothed with white wool; utricle membranous, very thin, oblong, suddenly and shortly tapering at the apex into the long persistent style; seed 1/10 in. long, 1/12 in. wide, ellipsoid, compressed, smooth, shining, black. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Asia.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 562!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Enon, Prior! Albany Div.; on the rocks of Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3398!EASTERN REGION Natal; in “Thorns” near Weenen, 300–4000 ft., Wood, 4480!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; on the Asbestos Mountains and on plains at their foot between Witte Water and Griquatown, Burchell, 1972! 2053/ 1! 2088! Transvaal; between Delagoa Bay and Pretoria, Bolus, 9752! Wonderboom Poort, 4550 ft., Rehmann, 4546! Miss Leendertz, 614! Warmbath, Miss Leendertz, 2089! Fourteen Streams, Burtt-Davy, 1594! Klippan, Rehmann, 5298!

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