- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus:
- Bidens L.
Bidens magnifolia Sherff

[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herb or shrub, 0.6–3 m high; stem to 3 cm in diameter, ‘ringed’ with leaf scars, much branched, sparsely pubescent to glabrous.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves ovate in outline, simple (near stem apex) to pinnatisect, 6–20(–26) cm long, 5–16 cm wide, when pinnatisect with 3–9 ovate to lanceolate segments 3–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, the terminal segment largest, margins serrate, apex attenuate, sparsely scabridulous on both surfaces; petiole 1–7 cm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula in terminal lax corymbose cymes; stalks of individual capitula 2–20 cm long; involucre 6–12 mm long; outer phyllaries 6–12, green, often reflexed, glabrous or pilose, inner phyllaries 8–10, free or partly connate; paleae to 8 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Ray florets yellow, neuter, 8, tube 2–3 mm long, pilose, rays 20–35 mm long, 6–15 mm wide; disc florets yellow to brownish yellow, 7–8 mm long, glabrous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes dark brown, oblong to obovoid, 4.5–9.5 mm long, strigose, margins narrowly callose-thickened; pappus of 2(–4) aristae 1–3.5 mm long, with few barbs near apex, both antrorse and retrorse on the same arista.
- Habitat
- orest clearings and margins, secondary vegetation in forest zone; 600–2300 m
- Distribution
- not known elsewhere T3 T5 T6 T7
Native to:
Tanzania
Bidens magnifolia Sherff appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1984 | Lynes, N. [4], Tanzania | K000410565 | holotype | Yes | |
Greenway [3475], Tanzania | K000410564 | holotype | Yes | ||
Hornby [896], Tanzania | K000410566 | isotype | Yes | ||
Holst, C. [2252], Tanzania | K000410567 | lectotype | Yes |
First published in Bot. Gaz. 90: 390 (1930)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Mesfin in Kew Bulletin 48: 458 (1993).
- Mesfin in Symb. Bot. Upsal. 26, 2: 199, fig. 2 (1986)
- Sherff in Bot. Gaz. 90: 390, fig. 4 (1930)
- Sherff in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 16: 575, fig. 160 (1937).
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