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ATHROISMA DC. [family ]

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
ATHROISMA DC. [family ], in Arch. Bot. 2: 516 (1833); T. Eriksson in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 119: 101–184 (1995)
Information
Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or dissected. Capitula in dense heads of heads, the glomerules, disciform or discoid, the glomerules arranged in synflorescences or solitary; phyllaries 0–2 per capitulum; receptacle paleate. Capitula with 2 filiform female florets and few to many hermaphrodite disc florets. Anthers caudate. Achenes slightly flattened; pappus absent or occasionally a ring of connected twin-hairs.
Range
11 species in Africa, Madagascar and E Asia.

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
ATHROISMA DC. [family ], in Arch. Bot. 2: 516 (1833); T. Eriksson in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 119: 101–184 (1995)
Information
Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or dissected. Capitula in dense heads of heads, the glomerules, disciform or discoid, the glomerules arranged in synflorescences or solitary; phyllaries 0–2 per capitulum; receptacle paleate. Capitula with 2 filiform female florets and few to many hermaphrodite disc florets. Anthers caudate. Achenes slightly flattened; pappus absent or occasionally a ring of connected twin-hairs.
Range
11 species in Africa, Madagascar and E Asia.

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
ATHROISMA DC. [family ], in Arch. Bot. 2: 516 (1833); T. Eriksson in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 119: 101–184 (1995)
Information
Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or dissected. Capitula in dense heads of heads, the glomerules, disciform or discoid, the glomerules arranged in synflorescences or solitary; phyllaries 0–2 per capitulum; receptacle paleate. Capitula with 2 filiform female florets and few to many hermaphrodite disc florets. Anthers caudate. Achenes slightly flattened; pappus absent or occasionally a ring of connected twin-hairs.
Range
11 species in Africa, Madagascar and E Asia.
ATHROISMA DC. [family ]
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