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Spilanthes oleracea

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Identification
Spilanthes acmella L. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Spilanthes oleracea (L.) R.K.Jansen [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S. Koma, 2008
Related name
  • Spilanthes oleracea
  • Cotula pyrethraria
  • Spilanthes acmella
  • Acmella oleracea

Flora

Entry for Acmella oleracea (L.) R.K.Jansen [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Acmella oleracea (L.) R.K.Jansen [family COMPOSITAE], in Syst. Bot. Monogr. 8: 65 (1985); Lisowski, Asterac. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 234, t. 52 (1991); D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 209 (1993); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 216 (1994); D.J.N. Hind & Biggs in Curtis Bot. Mag. 20: 31–39 (2003). Type: Herb. Linn. No. 974.5 (LINN, lecto., designated by Jansen in Syst. Bot. Monogr. 8: 65 (1985))
Spilanthes oleracea L. [family COMPOSITAE], Syst. Nat. 2: 534 (1767)
Information
Annual herb, the stems decumbent or erect; stems often reddish, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate to deltate, 5–11 cm long, 4–8 cm wide, base truncate or with a short attenuate part, margins dentate, apex acute, usually glabrous. Capitula solitary, elongated-conical, discoid, 10–24 mm long, 11–17 mm in diameter; phyllaries in 3 series, 5–7 mm long. Disc florets many, yellow to orange, 2.7–3.3 mm long. Achenes black, 2–2.5 mm long, ciliate; pappus of 2 bristles 0.3–1.5 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 4; K 4; Z known only from cultivation and escapes from cultivation
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Donyo Sabuk, cultivated in Farm managers’s garden, July 1954, Bally 9837!TANZANIA Mwanza District Mwanza, Oct. 1932, Geilinger 3245!TANZANIA Zanzibar Ziwani, June 1930, Vaughan 1375!UGANDA Masaka District Sesse Is., Bugalla Is., Oct. 1958, Symes 483!
Notes
USES. A well-known salad vegetableCONSERVATION Least concern (LC)

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