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GNAPHALIUM polycaulon Pers. [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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
GNAPHALIUM polycaulon Pers. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. Pl. 2: 421 (1807); Hilliard in J.L.S. 82: 289 (1981) & in F.S.A. 33, 7 (2): 26 (1983); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 59 (1989); A.J. Scott in Fl. Mascar. 109: 71, t. 11 (1994). Type: India, Roxburgh in Herb. Willdenow 15500 (B†, holo.)
Information
Annual herb; stems 5–30 cm long, prostrate but distally erect, white-tomentose. Leaves oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, 1–7 cm long, 0.2–0.8 cm wide, base attenuate but half-clasping the stem, apex acute or obtuse, thinly white- or grey-tomentose on both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent. Capitula 2–3 mm long, in small clustered racemes to 3 cm long; stalks of individual capitula 1–5 mm long, tomentose; receptacle flat, shortly honeycombed; phyllaries in 3 series, lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm long, acute, lamina translucent. Outer florets pale yellow, 140–220, tube filiform, 1–1.2 mm long, minutely toothed, style 1.1–1.3 mm long; inner florets pale yellow, 4–6, tube narrowly infundibuliform, 0.9–1.2 mm long, lobes 0.2 mm long and pilose, anthers ± 0.5 mm long, style 1–1.3 mm long with truncate branches. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.35–0.5 mm long, glabrous; pappus 1–1.5 mm long, barbellate, of inner florets distally almost subplumose.
Range
DISTR. K 4; T 1, 4–7 pantropical weed
Altitude range
400–1350 m
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall District Thika, Aug. 1967, Faden 67714!TANZANIA Ngara District Mumwendo, Sep. 1960, Tanner 5129!;TANZANIA Dodoma District Ikowa dam, July 1970, Thulin & Mhoro 533!;TANZANIA Mbeya District Usangu Flats, Aug. 1958, Anderson 1203!
Notes
First recorded in our area by Burtt in 1932, at Lake Chaya.
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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
GNAPHALIUM polycaulon Pers. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. Pl. 2: 421 (1807); Hilliard in J.L.S. 82: 289 (1981) & in F.S.A. 33, 7 (2): 26 (1983); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 59 (1989); A.J. Scott in Fl. Mascar. 109: 71, t. 11 (1994). Type: India, Roxburgh in Herb. Willdenow 15500 (B†, holo.)
Information
Annual herb; stems 5–30 cm long, prostrate but distally erect, white-tomentose. Leaves oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, 1–7 cm long, 0.2–0.8 cm wide, base attenuate but half-clasping the stem, apex acute or obtuse, thinly white- or grey-tomentose on both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent. Capitula 2–3 mm long, in small clustered racemes to 3 cm long; stalks of individual capitula 1–5 mm long, tomentose; receptacle flat, shortly honeycombed; phyllaries in 3 series, lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm long, acute, lamina translucent. Outer florets pale yellow, 140–220, tube filiform, 1–1.2 mm long, minutely toothed, style 1.1–1.3 mm long; inner florets pale yellow, 4–6, tube narrowly infundibuliform, 0.9–1.2 mm long, lobes 0.2 mm long and pilose, anthers ± 0.5 mm long, style 1–1.3 mm long with truncate branches. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.35–0.5 mm long, glabrous; pappus 1–1.5 mm long, barbellate, of inner florets distally almost subplumose.
Range
DISTR. K 4; T 1, 4–7 pantropical weed
Altitude range
400–1350 m
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall District Thika, Aug. 1967, Faden 67714!TANZANIA Ngara District Mumwendo, Sep. 1960, Tanner 5129!;TANZANIA Dodoma District Ikowa dam, July 1970, Thulin & Mhoro 533!;TANZANIA Mbeya District Usangu Flats, Aug. 1958, Anderson 1203!
Notes
First recorded in our area by Burtt in 1932, at Lake Chaya.
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, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
GNAPHALIUM polycaulon Pers. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. Pl. 2: 421 (1807); Hilliard in J.L.S. 82: 289 (1981) & in F.S.A. 33, 7 (2): 26 (1983); Lisowski in F.A.C. Compositae, Inuleae: 59 (1989); A.J. Scott in Fl. Mascar. 109: 71, t. 11 (1994). Type: India, Roxburgh in Herb. Willdenow 15500 (B†, holo.)
Information
Annual herb; stems 5–30 cm long, prostrate but distally erect, white-tomentose. Leaves oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, 1–7 cm long, 0.2–0.8 cm wide, base attenuate but half-clasping the stem, apex acute or obtuse, thinly white- or grey-tomentose on both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent. Capitula 2–3 mm long, in small clustered racemes to 3 cm long; stalks of individual capitula 1–5 mm long, tomentose; receptacle flat, shortly honeycombed; phyllaries in 3 series, lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm long, acute, lamina translucent. Outer florets pale yellow, 140–220, tube filiform, 1–1.2 mm long, minutely toothed, style 1.1–1.3 mm long; inner florets pale yellow, 4–6, tube narrowly infundibuliform, 0.9–1.2 mm long, lobes 0.2 mm long and pilose, anthers ± 0.5 mm long, style 1–1.3 mm long with truncate branches. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.35–0.5 mm long, glabrous; pappus 1–1.5 mm long, barbellate, of inner florets distally almost subplumose.
Range
DISTR. K 4; T 1, 4–7 pantropical weed
Altitude range
400–1350 m
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall District Thika, Aug. 1967, Faden 67714!TANZANIA Ngara District Mumwendo, Sep. 1960, Tanner 5129!;TANZANIA Dodoma District Ikowa dam, July 1970, Thulin & Mhoro 533!;TANZANIA Mbeya District Usangu Flats, Aug. 1958, Anderson 1203!
Notes
First recorded in our area by Burtt in 1932, at Lake Chaya.
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