- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus:
- Macledium Cass.
Macledium plantaginifolium (O.Hoffm.) S.Ortiz

[FZ]
Compositae, G. V. Pope. Flora Zambesiaca 6:1. 1992
- Morphology General Habit
- A perennial herb, usually acaulescent, from a woody rootstock; roots numerous spreading thong-like.
- Morphology Stem
- Stems sometimes developed but abbreviated, erect to c. 5 cm. tall, simple or with a few short branches, and with 1–3 persistent leaf bases.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves few to numerous, prostrate discolorous subsessile, 6–20 x 1.5–12 cm., oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate-elliptic or ± orbicular, rounded and somewhat cuspidate at the apex or obtuse, broadly cuneate below narrowing to a winged midrib up to c. 2 cm. long, somewhat stem-clasping at the base, margins sparsely denticulate or serrulate, slightly revolute, green and glabrous on upper surface, white araneose-sericeous beneath (the indumentum sometimes peeling off), strongly 5(7)-nerved from the base, venation finely reticulate and prominent on both surfaces, or obscured by the indumentum beneath.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula subsessile, 1–7, solitary or densely clustered in the leaf rosette.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Involucre
- Involucres mostly 25–36 mm. long, 20–50 mm. in diam. in the upper part, broadly obconic-campanulate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Phyllaries
- Phyllaries stiffly slightly diverging, greenish to straw-coloured, chartaceous, sharply ciliolate on upper margins otherwise glabrous, the outermost usually not extending onto the capitulum stalk; the outer phyllaries from c. 7 mm. long and linear-lanceolate, usually somewhat falcate, tapering to a pungent apex; the inner phyllaries to c. 35 mm. long and narrowly lorate-lanceolate, ± scarious-winged in the lower part, inrolled and long-acuminate finely pungent to the apex; innermost phyllaries somewhat shorter, membranous winged and sharply cuspidate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corollas creamy to brownish usually with purplish lobes, 10–13 mm. long, infundibuliform; lobes 5–6.5 mm. long, linear, erect; achenes c. 2 mm. long, narrowly turbinate, densely long-ascending hispid; pappus copious, several seriate of plumose white setae 8–11 mm. long, shorter on the outside, seta bristles 0.5–1 mm. long.
[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Acaulescent perennial herb.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves all basal, forming a rosette, oblanceolate to obovate to almost round, 4–15 cm long, 1–8(–12.5) cm wide, cuneate into a membranous slightly expanded base, margins minutely serrulate, apex obtuse to rounded, minutely apiculate, dark green and glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath, with 1–2 prominent ascending subbasal veins on each side.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula 1–4, subsessile, precocious on surface of soil, or in centre of leaf rosette, discoid; involucre 25–32(–40) mm long; phyllaries ± 170, multiseriate, the outer narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, shiny white or pallid with paler membranous, minutely shortly pectinate-ciliate margins, becoming progressively longer and broader-margined inwards, the longest ± 25(–35) mm long, acuminate, pungent, the innermost ± 35 shorter, membranous, lanceolate to oblong, acuminate, rarely tomentellous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Florets ± 40, all tubular, hermaphrodite; corolla yellow, glabrous, 10.5–11 mm long, lobes narrow, 4.5–5.5 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes 3 mm long, densely hirsute with long ascending white or tawny hairs; pappus of numerous plumose bristles, the outer shorter, the inner longer, subequal, 9.5–10 mm long.
- Habitat
- Grassland, wooded grassland and deciduous woodland; 1050–2450 m
- Distribution
- T4 T7
Native to:
Angola, Burundi, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre
Macledium plantaginifolium (O.Hoffm.) S.Ortiz appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1970 | Welwitsch [3676], Angola | Dicoma plantaginifolia | K000252253 | Yes | |
Rogers, F.A. [8528], Zambia | Dicoma plantaginifolia | K000252254 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Rogers, F.A. [8528], Zambia | Dicoma plantaginifolia | K000252255 | Unknown type material | Yes |
First published in Taxon 50: 741 (2001)
Not accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. [Cited as Dicoma plantaginifolia.]
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