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Wedelia africana

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Name

Identification
Aspilia africana Wild [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Wild,H., Wedelia africana P.Beauv. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aspilia helianthoides
  • Wedelia africana
  • Aspilia latifolia
  • Coronocarpus helianthoides
  • Verbesina guineensis
  • Aspilia africana
  • Aspilia mossambicensis
  • Wedelia evansii

Flora

Entry for WEDELIA africana P. Beauv. [family ]
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
WEDELIA africana P. Beauv. [family ], Fl. Ow. vol. ii. p. 19, t. 69.
Information
Straggling pubescent perennial herb, a foot and a half or more high. Branches opposite, herbaceous and terete and more or less patently pubescent above. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, narrowed above, broad near the shortly petiolate base, strigose-hispid, serrate or remotely denticulate, rugose-venose beneath, 2/3–3 1/2 by 1/4–1 1/8 in. Capitula solitary on slender peduncles at the extremities of the stem and branches, hemispherical, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam.; peduncles ranging up to 2 1/4 in. Scales of the involucre linear-oblong, obtuse, strigose, 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Achenes angular, oblong, glabrescent, tipped by a cup-shaped ciliate pappus, without setæ.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Warree, River Formoso, P. Beauvois;Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Winwood Reade! Afzelius!

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