LITOGYNE gariepina (DC.) Anderb. [family ]

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
LITOGYNE gariepina (DC.) Anderb. [family ], (1991);
Ethulia gariepina DC. [family COMPOSITAE], (1836);. [type as above]
Epaltes gariepina (DC.) Steetz [family COMPOSITAE], (1864). Fig. 335. [type as above]
Ethulia alata Sond. [family COMPOSITAE], (1850);
Epaltes alata (Sond.) Steetz [family COMPOSITAE], (1864). [type as above]
Information
Annual or perennial herb (sometimes called a subshrub) 0.1–1 m high, aromatic; stems much branched, winged, scabrid and glandular or almost glabrous; wings 0.5–2 mm wide, entire or slightly serrate. Leaves sessile, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–7.5 x 0.1–1.4 cm, base decurrent, margins sparsely dentate, apex acute or apiculate, scabrid, glandular and viscid to almost glabrous. Capitula solitary or 3–6 together in corymbose cymes; involucre 3–4 mm high. Florets mauve or purple, the outer florets very many, 1.5–2 mm long; inner florets 20–30, 2.1–4 mm long and glandular, style long-exserted, purplish. Achenes cylindrical, 0.3–0.4 mm long, vestigial in inner florets; pappus absent in outer florets.
Range
C1, 2; S1 from West Africa to Sudan and south to South Africa.
Altitude range
100–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 21979; Beckett & White 1423; Kuchar 17153.
Notes
Ciin, rihan gedud (Som.).
LITOGYNE gariepina (DC.) Anderb. [family ]
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