Asteraceae
Blumea

Blumea bovei (DC.) Vatke

First published in Linnaea 39: 485 (1875)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Sahara to Israel and Arabian Peninsula, S. Iran to India (Gujarat). It is a perennial and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen

Introduced into:

Sri Lanka

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 14 (1956).
  • Randeria in Blumea 10: 285 (1960).
  • Vatke in Linnaea 39: 485 (1875).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Hart, H.C. [s.n.], Egypt Doellia bovei K000415393 Unknown type material Yes
Bove, N. [118], Egypt Doellia bovei K000415392 Yes
Schimper [1006], Ethiopia Doellia bovei K000415394 isotype Yes
Schimper [1006], Ethiopia Doellia bovei K000415395 isotype Yes
Ethiopia Doellia bovei K000415396 Yes
Dalzell, N.A. [628], Maharashtra Doellia bovei K000974737 Yes

Sources

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images