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Verbesina ciliata

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Name

Identification
Aspilia ciliata (Schumach.) Wild. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Verbesina ciliata Schumach. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Aspilia helianthoides
  • Verbesina ciliata
  • Aspilia ciliata

Flora

Entry for ASPILIA ciliata (Schum.) Wild [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
ASPILIA ciliata (Schum.) Wild [family COMPOSITAE], (1966);
Verbesina ciliata Schum. [family COMPOSITAE], (1827). [type as above]
Information
Annual herb 10–60 cm high; stems white-hispid. Leaves ovate, 2–10´0.5–4 cm, base cuneate, margins shallowly serrate to entire, apex acute, white-hispid and glandular on both surfaces, petiolate or rarely sessile; petiole up to 2 cm long. Capitula in lax leafy corymbs, on stalks up to 12 cm long; involucre 6–10 mm long; phyllaries pilose. Ray florets yellow, rays oblong to broadly elliptic, 7–10 mm long; disk florets pale yellow or white, 3.5–5 mm long. Achenes dark brown, slightly flattened obovoid, 3–6 mm long, pilose; pappus of 2 or 3 bristles 1–3 mm long.
Range
C2 tropical Africa from Senegal to Somalia.
Altitude range
c. 145 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kuchar 16702.

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