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PASACCARDOA Kuntze [family COMPOSITAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
PASACCARDOA Kuntze [family COMPOSITAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 354 (1891); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 21: 208 (1967); K. Bremer,Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 104 (1994)
Phyllactinia Benth. [family COMPOSITAE], in G.P. 2: 488 (1873), nom. illegit ., non J. H. Lev. (1851)
Information
Annual or perennial herbs with leafy stems. Leaves alternate, sessile or with a petioloid base, pinnately veined, serrulate. Capitula solitary, few, terminal on the inflorescence branches, erect, heterogamous, radiate; phyllaries multiseriate, imbricate; receptacle alveolate, alveoli with membranous teeth. Outer florets radiate, neuter; corolla of ray-florets with very short tube and broad 3-toothed ray; disc florets hermaphrodite; corolla shortly tubular below, abruptly dilated and deeply equally 5-lobed above; anthers strongly tailed, tails conspicuous, fringed; style branches short, obtuse, with a subapical dorsal fringe of hairs. Achenes of ray florets sterile, flask-shaped, of disc florets cylindrical, prominently obtusely 10-ribbed; pappus of numerous unequal fimbriate scales, somewhat fewer and shorter in the ray florets.
Range
A genus of 4 species in eastern, central and southern tropical Africa.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
PASACCARDOA Kuntze [family COMPOSITAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 354 (1891); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 21: 208 (1967); K. Bremer,Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 104 (1994)
Phyllactinia Benth. [family COMPOSITAE], in G.P. 2: 488 (1873), nom. illegit ., non J. H. Lev. (1851)
Information
Annual or perennial herbs with leafy stems. Leaves alternate, sessile or with a petioloid base, pinnately veined, serrulate. Capitula solitary, few, terminal on the inflorescence branches, erect, heterogamous, radiate; phyllaries multiseriate, imbricate; receptacle alveolate, alveoli with membranous teeth. Outer florets radiate, neuter; corolla of ray-florets with very short tube and broad 3-toothed ray; disc florets hermaphrodite; corolla shortly tubular below, abruptly dilated and deeply equally 5-lobed above; anthers strongly tailed, tails conspicuous, fringed; style branches short, obtuse, with a subapical dorsal fringe of hairs. Achenes of ray florets sterile, flask-shaped, of disc florets cylindrical, prominently obtusely 10-ribbed; pappus of numerous unequal fimbriate scales, somewhat fewer and shorter in the ray florets.
Range
A genus of 4 species in eastern, central and southern tropical Africa.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part 1, page 1, (2000) Author: H. J. Beentje, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.
Names
PASACCARDOA Kuntze [family COMPOSITAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 354 (1891); C. Jeffrey in K.B. 21: 208 (1967); K. Bremer,Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 104 (1994)
Phyllactinia Benth. [family COMPOSITAE], in G.P. 2: 488 (1873), nom. illegit ., non J. H. Lev. (1851)
Information
Annual or perennial herbs with leafy stems. Leaves alternate, sessile or with a petioloid base, pinnately veined, serrulate. Capitula solitary, few, terminal on the inflorescence branches, erect, heterogamous, radiate; phyllaries multiseriate, imbricate; receptacle alveolate, alveoli with membranous teeth. Outer florets radiate, neuter; corolla of ray-florets with very short tube and broad 3-toothed ray; disc florets hermaphrodite; corolla shortly tubular below, abruptly dilated and deeply equally 5-lobed above; anthers strongly tailed, tails conspicuous, fringed; style branches short, obtuse, with a subapical dorsal fringe of hairs. Achenes of ray florets sterile, flask-shaped, of disc florets cylindrical, prominently obtusely 10-ribbed; pappus of numerous unequal fimbriate scales, somewhat fewer and shorter in the ray florets.
Range
A genus of 4 species in eastern, central and southern tropical Africa.
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