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Flaveria trinervia (Spreng.) C.Mohr [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
Flaveria trinervia (Spreng.) C.Mohr [family COMPOSITAE], in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 6: 810 (1901); F.P.S. 3: 29 (1956); G.V. Pope in Kirkia 10: 111, t. 3a (1975); D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 220, t. 77 (1993); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 218 (1994). Type: cultivated plant in Halle Bot. Gard. (P, holo.)
Oedera trinervia Spreng. [family COMPOSITAE], Bot. Gard. Halle: 63 (1800)
Information
Annual herb 10–75(–200) cm high, erect or procumbent, much branched, the branches opposite and decussate, green or red to pinkish, pilose or more often glabrous. Leaves green or yellowgreen, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–7.5 cm long, 0.3–2 cm wide, base narrowed into a pseudopetiole but the very base widening and connate with the opposite leaf, margins serrulate to serrate, 3-veined from base, glabrous or puberulous. Capitula many in congested axillary and terminal cymes or glomerules; individual capitula oblong, heterogamous, some with a single female floret, some with 1 female and 1 bisexual floret, some with 2–4 bisexual florets only; involucre 4–5 mm long; phyllaries few, 2-seriate, 4–5 mm long. Female florets with ray yellow, suborbicular, 0.5–1 mm long, the tube green and ± 1 mm long; disc florets yellow with green base, 2–2.5 mm long, with pilose base. Achenes black, narrowly obovoid, 1.7–2.6 mm long, glabrous; pappus absent. Fig. 149 (page 724).
Range
DISTR. K 3–6, 7; T 3, 6; Z pantropical weed, originally from the Americas
Altitude range
0–1150 m
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Kiboko, Feb. 1949, Bogdan 2230!KENYA Central Kavirondo District Kisumu, May 1962, Tweedie 2358!KENYA Mombasa Island, Jan. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1047!TANZANIA Pangani District Bweni, Sep. 1955, Semsei 2316! & Pangani town, Dec. 1969, Botany students DSM 1267!TANZANIA Rufiji District Mafia, Kilindoni, Sep. 1937, Greenway 5250!TANZANIA Zanzibar, 1930, Taylor 389!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Least concern (LC). Much of our material had been mis-named as F. australasica Hook. The record cited for Zanzibar seems to be the earliest from East 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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Flaveria trinervia (Spreng.) C.Mohr [family COMPOSITAE], in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 6: 810 (1901); F.P.S. 3: 29 (1956); G.V. Pope in Kirkia 10: 111, t. 3a (1975); D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 220, t. 77 (1993); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 218 (1994). Type: cultivated plant in Halle Bot. Gard. (P, holo.)
Oedera trinervia Spreng. [family COMPOSITAE], Bot. Gard. Halle: 63 (1800)
Information
Annual herb 10–75(–200) cm high, erect or procumbent, much branched, the branches opposite and decussate, green or red to pinkish, pilose or more often glabrous. Leaves green or yellowgreen, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–7.5 cm long, 0.3–2 cm wide, base narrowed into a pseudopetiole but the very base widening and connate with the opposite leaf, margins serrulate to serrate, 3-veined from base, glabrous or puberulous. Capitula many in congested axillary and terminal cymes or glomerules; individual capitula oblong, heterogamous, some with a single female floret, some with 1 female and 1 bisexual floret, some with 2–4 bisexual florets only; involucre 4–5 mm long; phyllaries few, 2-seriate, 4–5 mm long. Female florets with ray yellow, suborbicular, 0.5–1 mm long, the tube green and ± 1 mm long; disc florets yellow with green base, 2–2.5 mm long, with pilose base. Achenes black, narrowly obovoid, 1.7–2.6 mm long, glabrous; pappus absent. Fig. 149 (page 724).
Range
DISTR. K 3–6, 7; T 3, 6; Z pantropical weed, originally from the Americas
Altitude range
0–1150 m
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Kiboko, Feb. 1949, Bogdan 2230!KENYA Central Kavirondo District Kisumu, May 1962, Tweedie 2358!KENYA Mombasa Island, Jan. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1047!TANZANIA Pangani District Bweni, Sep. 1955, Semsei 2316! & Pangani town, Dec. 1969, Botany students DSM 1267!TANZANIA Rufiji District Mafia, Kilindoni, Sep. 1937, Greenway 5250!TANZANIA Zanzibar, 1930, Taylor 389!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Least concern (LC). Much of our material had been mis-named as F. australasica Hook. The record cited for Zanzibar seems to be the earliest from East 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 Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Names
Flaveria trinervia (Spreng.) C.Mohr [family COMPOSITAE], in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 6: 810 (1901); F.P.S. 3: 29 (1956); G.V. Pope in Kirkia 10: 111, t. 3a (1975); D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 220, t. 77 (1993); U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 218 (1994). Type: cultivated plant in Halle Bot. Gard. (P, holo.)
Oedera trinervia Spreng. [family COMPOSITAE], Bot. Gard. Halle: 63 (1800)
Information
Annual herb 10–75(–200) cm high, erect or procumbent, much branched, the branches opposite and decussate, green or red to pinkish, pilose or more often glabrous. Leaves green or yellowgreen, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–7.5 cm long, 0.3–2 cm wide, base narrowed into a pseudopetiole but the very base widening and connate with the opposite leaf, margins serrulate to serrate, 3-veined from base, glabrous or puberulous. Capitula many in congested axillary and terminal cymes or glomerules; individual capitula oblong, heterogamous, some with a single female floret, some with 1 female and 1 bisexual floret, some with 2–4 bisexual florets only; involucre 4–5 mm long; phyllaries few, 2-seriate, 4–5 mm long. Female florets with ray yellow, suborbicular, 0.5–1 mm long, the tube green and ± 1 mm long; disc florets yellow with green base, 2–2.5 mm long, with pilose base. Achenes black, narrowly obovoid, 1.7–2.6 mm long, glabrous; pappus absent. Fig. 149 (page 724).
Range
DISTR. K 3–6, 7; T 3, 6; Z pantropical weed, originally from the Americas
Altitude range
0–1150 m
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Kiboko, Feb. 1949, Bogdan 2230!KENYA Central Kavirondo District Kisumu, May 1962, Tweedie 2358!KENYA Mombasa Island, Jan. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1047!TANZANIA Pangani District Bweni, Sep. 1955, Semsei 2316! & Pangani town, Dec. 1969, Botany students DSM 1267!TANZANIA Rufiji District Mafia, Kilindoni, Sep. 1937, Greenway 5250!TANZANIA Zanzibar, 1930, Taylor 389!
Notes
USES. None recorded on specimens from our area. CONSERVATION Least concern (LC). Much of our material had been mis-named as F. australasica Hook. The record cited for Zanzibar seems to be the earliest from East Africa.
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