Verbesina nana(A. Gray) B. L. Robinson & Greenman [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by B. L. Robinson & J. M. Greenman, Ximenesia encelioidesCavanilles [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by A. Gray, Ximenesia encelioidesCavanilles [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by A. Gray,
Related name
Pallasia serratifolia
Stenandrium dulce
Tithonia unrecorded
Heliopsis unrecorded
Ximenesia australis
Ximenesia encelioides
Verbesina encelioides
Verbesina australis
Pappobolus macranthus
Verbesina nana
Flora
Entry for XIMENESIA encelioides Cav. [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
XIMENESIA encelioidesCav. [family COMPOSITAE], Ic. ii. 60, t. 178.
Pallasia serratifoliaSm. [family ], in Rees Cycl. vol. xxvi.
Information
More or less hoary branched annual, 1–3 ft. high. Stem and branches pubescent-tomentose, striate. Leaves mostly alternate at least the upper ones, from deltoid to oblong, dentate, broad near the sometimes excavated base, green and strigulose above, hoary with whitish closely appressed tomentum below, 1 1/2–6 by 1–3 in. exclusive of the winged auriculate petiole of 1/2–2 in. Capitula 3/4–1 1/4 in. diameter, on peduncles ranging up to 8 in. Outer bracts of the involucre linear acute herbaceous, about 1/2 in. long. Receptacle convex. Achenes pilose.
Range
A variable widely spread species originally from Mexico.
