Family:
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Genus:
Pulicaria Gaertn.

Pulicaria glutinosa (Boiss.) Jaub. & Spach

This species is accepted, and its native range is NE. Tropical Africa, Arabian Peninsula, S. Pakistan.

[FSOM]

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

Morphology General Habit
Subshrub 20–45 cm high, densely branched, branches glabrous, glutinous
Morphology Leaves
Leaves linear, 10–30´1–2 mm, margins strongly revolute, apex apiculate, glabrous, sticky
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Capitula terminal and solitary, but many, on stalks 1–3 cm long; involucre 5–8 mm long; phyllaries lanceolate, acute to apiculate, brown to violet in middle part
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla yellow, marginal florets female but resembling the disk florets; disk florets 4–6 mm long, lobes glandular
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes c. 1.5 mm long, 10-ribbed, pilose; outer pappus of 10–12 partially connate scales 0.5–0.7 mm long; inner pappus of many bristles 4.5–5 mm long, slightly flattened.

Native to:

Djibouti, Gulf States, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen

Pulicaria glutinosa (Boiss.) Jaub. & Spach appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Bally, P.R.O. [15401], Somalia K000415362 holotype Yes
Lunt, W. [57], Yemen K000978583 Unknown type material Yes
Hirsch [80], Saudi Arabia K000978581 Yes
Aucher-Eloy [4728] K000978582 Yes

First published in Ill. Pl. Orient. 4(35): 77 (1852)

Accepted by

  • 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.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Ghazanfar, S.A. (2015). Flora of Oman 3: 1-386. National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise.
  • Qaiser, M. & Abid, R. (2003). Flora of Pakistan 210: 1-215. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.

Flora of Somalia

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

  • Flora of Somalia

    Flora of Somalia
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • 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 Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0