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Sphaeranthus polycephalus

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Name

Identification
Sphaeranthus polycephalus unrecorded [family COMPOSITAE ] Sphaeranthus flexuosus O.Hoffm. ex De Wild. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Ross-Graig, S., Sphaeranthus brounae Robyns [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Sphaeranthus gazaensis
  • Sphaeranthus hirtus
  • Sphaeranthus senegalensis
  • Sphaeranthus flexuosus
  • Sphaeranthus brounae
  • Sphaeranthus polycephalus

Flora

Entry for SPHAERANTHUS senegalensis DC. [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
SPHAERANTHUS senegalensis DC. [family COMPOSITAE], (1836).
SPHAERANTHUS polycephalus Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], (1873).
Information
Annual herb, 0.1–1 m tall, erect or decumbent; branches winged, densely puberulous to pubescent, the wings spinulose-dentate. Leaves lanceolate, 1–10´0.5–3.5 cm, base decurrent into the wings, margins spinulose-dentate, apex acute, pubescent to puberulous, glandular. Glomerules purple, globose to slightly ovoid, 6–13 mm in diam.; capitula sessile, with 7–14 bracts, these linear to narrowly elliptic, 2–3.5 mm long, scarious. Florets: outer 4–12, tube filiform, 1–1.4 mm long, lobes less than 0.1 mm long; inner 1–3, tube with a wide corky base narrowing rapidly in its distal half, 1.4–2 mm long, glandular proximally, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long and glandular. Achenes of outer florets ellipsoid, 0.6–0.7 mm long, puberulous, of inner florets empty, obconical,±1 mm long, glabrous.
Range
S1, 3 from Senegal to Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and from India to China and Thailand.
Altitude range
30–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Puccioni & Stefanini 320; Riva 1087; Paoli 376.

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