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ARTEMISIA L. [family COMPOSITAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
ARTEMISIA L. [family COMPOSITAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 435.
Information
Capitula heterogamous, discoid; outer florets pistillate, tubular. Involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts pauciseriate, subequal, imbricate. Receptacle naked or nearly so. Anther-base entire or 2-dentate. Style-branches truncate or penicillate. Achenes narrowly ellipsoidal in our species; pappus 0. —Herbs or shrubs with 2–3-pinnatisect (simply incised or entire) alternate leaves and small often pendulous capitula in racemose panicles (in A. abyssinica).
Range
A large genus chiefly confined to the Northern hemisphere.
Notes
There are in the Kew Herbarium specimens in leaf without flowers from Kilimanjaro, collected by Dr. Kirk and Rev. C. New, and also from Tropical South Africa, collected by T. Baines, all of which resemble Artemisia Afra, Jacq.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
ARTEMISIA L. [family COMPOSITAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 435.
Information
Capitula heterogamous, discoid; outer florets pistillate, tubular. Involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts pauciseriate, subequal, imbricate. Receptacle naked or nearly so. Anther-base entire or 2-dentate. Style-branches truncate or penicillate. Achenes narrowly ellipsoidal in our species; pappus 0. —Herbs or shrubs with 2–3-pinnatisect (simply incised or entire) alternate leaves and small often pendulous capitula in racemose panicles (in A. abyssinica).
Range
A large genus chiefly confined to the Northern hemisphere.
Notes
There are in the Kew Herbarium specimens in leaf without flowers from Kilimanjaro, collected by Dr. Kirk and Rev. C. New, and also from Tropical South Africa, collected by T. Baines, all of which resemble Artemisia Afra, Jacq.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
ARTEMISIA L. [family COMPOSITAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 435.
Information
Capitula heterogamous, discoid; outer florets pistillate, tubular. Involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts pauciseriate, subequal, imbricate. Receptacle naked or nearly so. Anther-base entire or 2-dentate. Style-branches truncate or penicillate. Achenes narrowly ellipsoidal in our species; pappus 0. —Herbs or shrubs with 2–3-pinnatisect (simply incised or entire) alternate leaves and small often pendulous capitula in racemose panicles (in A. abyssinica).
Range
A large genus chiefly confined to the Northern hemisphere.
Notes
There are in the Kew Herbarium specimens in leaf without flowers from Kilimanjaro, collected by Dr. Kirk and Rev. C. New, and also from Tropical South Africa, collected by T. Baines, all of which resemble Artemisia Afra, Jacq.
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