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Thymophylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small [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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Thymophylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. SE U.S.: 1295 (1903); D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 225 (1993). SYN. Hymenatherum tenuilobum DC., Prodr. 5: 642 (1836); U.O.P.Z.: 301 (1949), as tenuifolium.
Information
Annual or perennial herb 10–30 cm high; stems puberulous. Leaves usually alternate, pinnatifid, 1.5–3 cm long, the 9–13 segments filiform, aromatic. Capitula terminal and solitary; peduncle 3–5 cm long; involucre 5–6 mm long, 1-seriate. Ray florets yellow, ray 3–4 mm long; disc florets yellow, ± 2.5 mm long. Achenes ± 3 mm long; pappus of 10 oblong scales, each with 3 aristae at apex.
Notes
Originally from Mexico and Texas; two cultivated specimens are: 10 km S of Mombasa, Dec. 1975, Bally 16953!; Kwale District: Ras Kikadini, June 1983, Robertson 3599!; and also cultivated on Zanzibar and possibly Pemba (U.O.P.Z.), sometimes escaped and naturalised, as in Mombasa, Sep. 1953, Jex-Blake EA 10359! Fig. 144.

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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Thymophylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. SE U.S.: 1295 (1903); D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 225 (1993). SYN. Hymenatherum tenuilobum DC., Prodr. 5: 642 (1836); U.O.P.Z.: 301 (1949), as tenuifolium.
Information
Annual or perennial herb 10–30 cm high; stems puberulous. Leaves usually alternate, pinnatifid, 1.5–3 cm long, the 9–13 segments filiform, aromatic. Capitula terminal and solitary; peduncle 3–5 cm long; involucre 5–6 mm long, 1-seriate. Ray florets yellow, ray 3–4 mm long; disc florets yellow, ± 2.5 mm long. Achenes ± 3 mm long; pappus of 10 oblong scales, each with 3 aristae at apex.
Notes
Originally from Mexico and Texas; two cultivated specimens are: 10 km S of Mombasa, Dec. 1975, Bally 16953!; Kwale District: Ras Kikadini, June 1983, Robertson 3599!; and also cultivated on Zanzibar and possibly Pemba (U.O.P.Z.), sometimes escaped and naturalised, as in Mombasa, Sep. 1953, Jex-Blake EA 10359! Fig. 144.

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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Thymophylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. SE U.S.: 1295 (1903); D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 225 (1993). SYN. Hymenatherum tenuilobum DC., Prodr. 5: 642 (1836); U.O.P.Z.: 301 (1949), as tenuifolium.
Information
Annual or perennial herb 10–30 cm high; stems puberulous. Leaves usually alternate, pinnatifid, 1.5–3 cm long, the 9–13 segments filiform, aromatic. Capitula terminal and solitary; peduncle 3–5 cm long; involucre 5–6 mm long, 1-seriate. Ray florets yellow, ray 3–4 mm long; disc florets yellow, ± 2.5 mm long. Achenes ± 3 mm long; pappus of 10 oblong scales, each with 3 aristae at apex.
Notes
Originally from Mexico and Texas; two cultivated specimens are: 10 km S of Mombasa, Dec. 1975, Bally 16953!; Kwale District: Ras Kikadini, June 1983, Robertson 3599!; and also cultivated on Zanzibar and possibly Pemba (U.O.P.Z.), sometimes escaped and naturalised, as in Mombasa, Sep. 1953, Jex-Blake EA 10359! Fig. 144.
Thymophylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small [family COMPOSITAE]
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