- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
- Genus:
- Volutaria Cass.
Volutaria abyssinica subsp. abyssinica
[FSOM]
M. Thulin. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1–4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Erect to decumbent perennial herb with stems to 50 cm long; stems densely white-tomentellous and glandular
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves pinnatisect to narrowly elliptic and dentate, 3–9´0.5–4 cm, with the remnants of tomentum, some sparse hispidulous hairs, and densely glandular
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula solitary on long leafy stalks or in few-headed inflorescences; involucre 14–18 mm long, the phyllaries with black margins
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Outer florets pink to purple, 13–17 mm long; inner florets darker, corolla 8–9 mm long
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes ellipsoid, 5–5.5 mm long, glandular, sparsely pilose, set among linear paleae to 12 mm long; pappus of several series of linear scales 0.5–2 mm long.
Native to:
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen
- Amberboa abyssinica A.Rich.
- Amberboa hochstetteri (Oliv. & Hiern) Soják
- Amberboa saltii (Philipson) Soják
- Amberboa somalensis (Oliv. & Hiern) Soják
- Centaurea hochstetteri Oliv. & Hiern
- Centaurea saltii Philipson
- Centaurea somalensis Oliv. & Hiern
- Volutarella abyssinica Vatke
- Volutaria somalensis (Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey
Volutaria abyssinica subsp. abyssinica appears in other Kew resources:
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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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
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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