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FLAVERIA trinervia (Spreng.) C. Mohr [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
FLAVERIA trinervia (Spreng.) C. Mohr [family COMPOSITAE], (1901);
Oedera trinervia Spreng. [family COMPOSITAE], (1800). Fig. 376. [type as above]
FLAVERIA australasica Hook.f. [family COMPOSITAE], (1848).
Information
Annual herb 15–80(–200) cm high; stems often purplish, glabrous. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 2–10 x 0.5–1.5 cm, base attenuate, margins entire to spinulose-serrate, apex acute, glabrous; petiole to 2 cm long, connate at base. Capitula in glomerules, forming sessile axillary synflorescences 1–2 cm across subtended by small cauline leaves, capitula small, with 1–2 florets, the outer capitula often radiate, the inner discoid; involucre of 2 phyllaries, 2–4 mm long, enfolding mature achenes. Ray floret creamy-yellow, ± 1.5 mm long, rays c. 0.5–1 mm long, suborbicular; disk florets 2–2.5 mm long. Achenes black, ellipsoid, 2–2.6 mm long; pappus absent.
Range
N1–3; S1, 2 pantropical weed.
Altitude range
300–1350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Barbier 1004; Thulin, Abdi Dahir & Abdisalam Hassan 9151; Hemming 2225.
Notes
Harame, haramo (Som.).
FLAVERIA trinervia (Spreng.) C. Mohr [family COMPOSITAE]
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