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COTULA anthemoides L. [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
COTULA anthemoides L. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. Pl.: 891 (1753); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 397 (1877); O. Hoffm. in P.O.A. C: 415 (1895); F.P.S. 3: 20 (1956); A.V.P.: fig. 16b (p. 221) & 348 (1957); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 250 (1963); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 219 (1994). Syntypes: “habitat in Insula Helenae, Hispania”, Herb. Clifford: 417, Cotula 3 (BM, lecto., chosen by Humphries in Taxon 47: 359 (1998))
COTULA dichrocephala A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 419 (1848). Type: Ethiopia, Poa near Adwa [Adua], Schimper 1325 (P!, holo., K!, iso.)
Information
Annual (?perennial) herb, erect or procumbent, 4–30 cm high, spreading by underground runners; stems branched, sparsely arachnoid-pubescent to almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, dark green, pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, with dentate lobes, the leaf outline lanceolate, 2–5 cm long, 0.6–2 cm wide, base half-amplexicaul extending into a pseudopetiole up to 2 cm long, with up to 5 lobes on each side as well as a terminal lobe, up to 1 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, the lobes and their teeth apiculate, arachnoid-pubescent when young but glabrescent. Capitula terminal, solitary, 2–5 mm long, ± globose; capitulum stalk 0.6–1.3 cm long, sparsely pubescent; phyllaries 2-seriate, 16–27, obovate, 1–2.5 mm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, obtuse or rarely acute, with scarious margins; receptacle flat with remnants of floret stalks. Disc florets many (50+), yellow or pale yellow; the outer in several rows, on up to 0.6 mm long stalks; the inner sessile, corolla ± 1 mm long including 4 lobes to 0.2 mm long, anthers ± 0.3 mm long. Achenes dorsiventrally flattened and slightly concave above, slightly convex beneath, slightly obovoid, 1.2–1.5 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide, 0.2–0.3 mm thick, with narrow wings widening towards the apex, apex rounded to subcordate, with an unequal-sided mucro up to 0.3 mm long.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 3–6; T 1–3, 5, 7 southern Africa; a widespread weed, common in the warmer parts of the Old World
Altitude range
(450–)900–2400 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, Aug. 1952, Gillett 13700!;TANZANIA Musoma/Maswa District Seronera Dam, May 1961, Greenway 10145!;KENYA Baringo District Chemerone, May 1976, Gitonga & Newbould 163!;KENYA Masai District Suswa, Mar. 1963, Glover & Ole Donet 4480!TANZANIA Mbulu District Kitingi, Mar. 1965, Hukui 54!;TANZANIA Iringa District Great Ruaha R., 7 km S of junction with Yovi R., Sep. 1970, Thulin & Mhoro 897!
Distribution (external)
; Egypt
Sudan
Ethiopia
Arabia
India
China
Japan
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
COTULA anthemoides L. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. Pl.: 891 (1753); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 397 (1877); O. Hoffm. in P.O.A. C: 415 (1895); F.P.S. 3: 20 (1956); A.V.P.: fig. 16b (p. 221) & 348 (1957); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 250 (1963); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 219 (1994). Syntypes: “habitat in Insula Helenae, Hispania”, Herb. Clifford: 417, Cotula 3 (BM, lecto., chosen by Humphries in Taxon 47: 359 (1998))
COTULA dichrocephala A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 419 (1848). Type: Ethiopia, Poa near Adwa [Adua], Schimper 1325 (P!, holo., K!, iso.)
Information
Annual (?perennial) herb, erect or procumbent, 4–30 cm high, spreading by underground runners; stems branched, sparsely arachnoid-pubescent to almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, dark green, pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, with dentate lobes, the leaf outline lanceolate, 2–5 cm long, 0.6–2 cm wide, base half-amplexicaul extending into a pseudopetiole up to 2 cm long, with up to 5 lobes on each side as well as a terminal lobe, up to 1 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, the lobes and their teeth apiculate, arachnoid-pubescent when young but glabrescent. Capitula terminal, solitary, 2–5 mm long, ± globose; capitulum stalk 0.6–1.3 cm long, sparsely pubescent; phyllaries 2-seriate, 16–27, obovate, 1–2.5 mm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, obtuse or rarely acute, with scarious margins; receptacle flat with remnants of floret stalks. Disc florets many (50+), yellow or pale yellow; the outer in several rows, on up to 0.6 mm long stalks; the inner sessile, corolla ± 1 mm long including 4 lobes to 0.2 mm long, anthers ± 0.3 mm long. Achenes dorsiventrally flattened and slightly concave above, slightly convex beneath, slightly obovoid, 1.2–1.5 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide, 0.2–0.3 mm thick, with narrow wings widening towards the apex, apex rounded to subcordate, with an unequal-sided mucro up to 0.3 mm long.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 3–6; T 1–3, 5, 7 southern Africa; a widespread weed, common in the warmer parts of the Old World
Altitude range
(450–)900–2400 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, Aug. 1952, Gillett 13700!;TANZANIA Musoma/Maswa District Seronera Dam, May 1961, Greenway 10145!;KENYA Baringo District Chemerone, May 1976, Gitonga & Newbould 163!;KENYA Masai District Suswa, Mar. 1963, Glover & Ole Donet 4480!TANZANIA Mbulu District Kitingi, Mar. 1965, Hukui 54!;TANZANIA Iringa District Great Ruaha R., 7 km S of junction with Yovi R., Sep. 1970, Thulin & Mhoro 897!
Distribution (external)
; Egypt
Sudan
Ethiopia
Arabia
India
China
Japan
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
COTULA anthemoides L. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. Pl.: 891 (1753); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 397 (1877); O. Hoffm. in P.O.A. C: 415 (1895); F.P.S. 3: 20 (1956); A.V.P.: fig. 16b (p. 221) & 348 (1957); C.D. Adams in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 250 (1963); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 219 (1994). Syntypes: “habitat in Insula Helenae, Hispania”, Herb. Clifford: 417, Cotula 3 (BM, lecto., chosen by Humphries in Taxon 47: 359 (1998))
COTULA dichrocephala A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 419 (1848). Type: Ethiopia, Poa near Adwa [Adua], Schimper 1325 (P!, holo., K!, iso.)
Information
Annual (?perennial) herb, erect or procumbent, 4–30 cm high, spreading by underground runners; stems branched, sparsely arachnoid-pubescent to almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, dark green, pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, with dentate lobes, the leaf outline lanceolate, 2–5 cm long, 0.6–2 cm wide, base half-amplexicaul extending into a pseudopetiole up to 2 cm long, with up to 5 lobes on each side as well as a terminal lobe, up to 1 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, the lobes and their teeth apiculate, arachnoid-pubescent when young but glabrescent. Capitula terminal, solitary, 2–5 mm long, ± globose; capitulum stalk 0.6–1.3 cm long, sparsely pubescent; phyllaries 2-seriate, 16–27, obovate, 1–2.5 mm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, obtuse or rarely acute, with scarious margins; receptacle flat with remnants of floret stalks. Disc florets many (50+), yellow or pale yellow; the outer in several rows, on up to 0.6 mm long stalks; the inner sessile, corolla ± 1 mm long including 4 lobes to 0.2 mm long, anthers ± 0.3 mm long. Achenes dorsiventrally flattened and slightly concave above, slightly convex beneath, slightly obovoid, 1.2–1.5 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide, 0.2–0.3 mm thick, with narrow wings widening towards the apex, apex rounded to subcordate, with an unequal-sided mucro up to 0.3 mm long.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 3–6; T 1–3, 5, 7 southern Africa; a widespread weed, common in the warmer parts of the Old World
Altitude range
(450–)900–2400 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, Aug. 1952, Gillett 13700!;TANZANIA Musoma/Maswa District Seronera Dam, May 1961, Greenway 10145!;KENYA Baringo District Chemerone, May 1976, Gitonga & Newbould 163!;KENYA Masai District Suswa, Mar. 1963, Glover & Ole Donet 4480!TANZANIA Mbulu District Kitingi, Mar. 1965, Hukui 54!;TANZANIA Iringa District Great Ruaha R., 7 km S of junction with Yovi R., Sep. 1970, Thulin & Mhoro 897!
Distribution (external)
; Egypt
Sudan
Ethiopia
Arabia
India
China
Japan
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