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Sigesbeckia orientalis

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Name

Identification
Sigesbeckia orientalis L. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sigesbeckia orientalis

Flora

Entry for SIGESBECKIA abyssinica O. & H. [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
SIGESBECKIA abyssinica O. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
SIGESBECKIA orientalis Benth. et Hook. f. [family COMPOSITAE], (forma),Gen. Pl. ii. p. 359.
Limnogenneton abyssinicum Schultz Bip. [family ], in Walp. Rep. vi. p. 147.
Cryphiospermum abyssinicum Schultz Bip. [family ], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 1059, and in Walp. l. c.
Information
Scabrid herb, 2–3 ft. high. Stem erect, sulcate-striate, terete, but little branched. Leaves ovate or the upper lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, membranous, somewhat excavated near the wedge-shaped base, 2–4 by 1/2–1 1/2 in.; petioles 1/8–1 in., amplexicaul. Capitula 1/4– 1/3 in. diameter, hemispherical, on peduncles ranging up to 2/3 in., in a leafy narrow panicle. Bracts of the involucre 4–5, oblong, pubescent, 1/6 in. long, obscurely 5-nerved, exceeding the paleæ. Some minute sessile glands are scattered over the bracts of the involucre.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Quartin Dillon.
Notes
Differs from S. orientalis, L., by much shorter outer involucral bracts, without stalked glands.

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