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This species is accepted, and its native range is Turkey-in-Europe to Asia and Pacific.

[FTEA]

Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005

Habit
Annual herb, 0.1–1 m high, erect or procumbent, slightly stoloniferous, aromatic or pungent; stems sparsely branched, slightly angular, 4–7 mm in diameter, pale green with proximal reddish striations, thinly white-arachnoid or thin white-puberulous to subglabrous.
Leaves
Leaves pale green, paler beneath, membranous, lyrate-pinnatifid, petiole 0.3–5 cm long and at the very base half-amplexicaul, with 1–2(–3) pairs of basal lobes 0.3–3 cm long and 0.1–2 cm wide, the terminal lobe largest, ovate, 1–12 cm long, 0.6–8 cm wide, cuneate to subcordate at the base, the margins dentate-serrate, the apex acute or obtuse, sparsely arachnoid-pubescent, pilose or almost glabrous, rarely densely glandular beneath.
Capitulum
Capitula 2–5 mm long, in lax leafy compound panicles, the final leafless panicles 4–6 cm long; branches with subulate bracts 2–3 mm long; individual heads on subglabrous stalks 2–5 mm long but seemingly up to 5 cm; phyllaries spreading or reflexed, 10–16, 2-seriate, subequal with the inner slightly smaller, green with fimbriate white scarious margins, lanceolate, 1–2 mm long, 0.4–0.8 mm wide, acute or obtuse, glabrous.
Florets
Outer florets many, white, the corolla 0.5–0.8 mm long, tubular with a narrow base and 2–3 teeth, sparsely glandular; inner florets fewer than the outer, white or pale yellow, sometimes pink or mauve near the lobes, tube 0.5–0.7 mm long and 3–4 triangular lobes 0.3–0.7 mm long; anthers yellow, ± 0.4 mm long; style with lanceolate appendages.
Fruits
Achenes pale brown or yellow, sticky, obovoid, flattened, 1–1.6 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide and ± 0.2 mm thick, with pale margins, glandular near the apex; pappus of the outer florets usually absent, sometimes with 1–2 bristles 0.5–0.8 mm long; pappus of inner florets often of 1–2 bristles.
Figures
Fig. 94 (page 460).

[FSOM]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Habit
Annual herb, 0.1–1 m high, erect or procumbent, slightly stoloniferous, aromatic or pungent; stems thinly cobwebby-hairy or thinly white-puberulous to subglabrous
Leaves
Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, with 1–2(–3) pairs of basal lobes 0.3–3´0.1–2 cm, the terminal lobe largest, ovate, 1–12´0.6–8 cm, cuneate to subcordate, margins dentate-serrate, sparsely cobwebby-pubescent, pilose or almost glabrous, rarely densely glandular beneath
Inflorescences
Capitula in lax leafy compound panicles, the final leafless panicles 4–6 cm long; phyllaries spreading or reflexed, 10–16, 2-seriate, lanceolate, 1–2 mm long
Florets
Outer florets many, white, female, fertile, the corolla 0.5–0.8 mm long with 2–3 teeth; inner florets white or pale yellow, sometimes pink or mauve near the lobes, with a tube 0.5–0.7 mm long and 3–4 triangular lobes 0.3–0.7 mm long
Fruits
Achenes pale brown or yellow, sticky, obovoid, flattened, 1–1.6 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide and ± 0.2 mm thick, with pale margins, glandular near the apex; pappus of the outer florets usually absent, sometimes with 1–2 bristles 0.5–0.8 mm long; pappus of inner florets often with 1–2 bristles.
Distribution
N2 widespread in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, the Middle East and tropical Asia.
Ecology
Altitude range c. 2015 m.
Note
The Somali plant is subsp. integrifolia. Subsp. gracilis (DC.) A. Fayed occurs in Madagascar, India and Nepal.

[FWTA]

Compositae, C. D. Adams. Flora of West Tropical Africa 2. 1963

Habit
An erect branched annual herb 1-3 ft. or more high, with scabrid angular stems
Flowers
Roughly pubescent leaves
Inflorescences
The flower-heads have an involucre of green bracts with whitish tips, and greenish-yellow central florets, the outer florets may be mauve
Ecology
A weed of high ground.

Native to:

Angola, Assam, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Malaya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Tubuai Is., Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Guatemala, Italy, Mauritius, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Queensland, Réunion, Society Is.

Dichrocephala integrifolia (L.f.) Kuntze appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
May 1, 2001 Johns, R.J. [8936], New Guinea 71217.000
Jan 1, 1978 Mann, G. [1926], Cameroon K000051883
Jan 1, 1978 Horsfield, T. [46], Jawa K000890180
Jan 1, 1978 Horsfield, T. [354], Jawa K000890181
Jan 1, 1978 Wallich, N. [1412], India K000890188 Unknown type material
Jan 1, 1978 Wallich, N. [3237] K000890189
Jan 1, 1978 Wallich, N. [s.n.] K000890235
Jan 1, 1978 s.coll. [s.n.], India K000890190
Morton, J.K. [6705], Cameroon K000051882
Morton, J.K. [876], Cameroon K000051888
Akpabla, G.K. [10500], Cameroon K000051889
Boughey, A.S. [10703], Cameroon K000051884
Mann, G. [1268], Cameroon K000051879
Gay, J. [s.n.], India K000890193
Ritchie, D. [389], India K000890191
Ritchie, D. [389], India K000890192
Migeod, F. W. H. [111], Cameroon K000051880

First published in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 333 (1891)

Accepted by

  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Koyama, H., Bunwong, S., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Hind, D.J.N. (2016). Flora of Thailand 13(2): 143-428. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
  • Turner, I.M. (1995). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(1): 1-346.

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 333 (1891).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 204, t. 83 (1994).
  • A.J. Scott in Fl. Masc. 109: 78, t. 26 (1993).
  • Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 21, fig. 3 (1991).
  • Maquet in Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 3: 574, fig. 175/1 (1985).
  • Fayed in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 15: 492 (1979).
  • Wild in Kirkia 10: 7 (1975).
  • C.D. Adams in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 2: 256 (1963).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 23 (1956).
  • Kuntze in Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 333 (1891).

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