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Family: | Asteraceae |
Full name: | Flaveria bidentis (L.) Kuntze |
Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
ID status: | Fairly certain |
Afrikaans common name(s): | Smeltersbossie, Smelterbossie |
English common name(s): | Smelter's bush, Yellowtops, Coastal plain yellowtops |
Synonym(s): | Ethulia bidentis L. Flaveria contrayerba (Cav.) Pers. Milleria contrayerba Cav. |
Status: | Alien |
Description: | Yellow flowers. Annuals, to 100 cm (delicate or robust, sparsely villous). Stems erect. Leaves petiolate (proximal, petioles 3-15 mm) or sessile (distal) ; blades lanceolate-elliptic, 50-120(-180) x 10-25(-70) mm, bases (distal) connate, margins serrate or spinulose serrate. Heads 20-100+ in tight subglomerules in scorpioid, cymiform arrays. Calyculi of 1-2 linear bractlets 1-2 mm. Involucres oblong-angular, 5 mm. Phyllaries 3(-4), oblong. Ray florets 0 or 1; laminae pale yellow, ovate-oblique, to 1 mm (not or barely surpassing phyllaries). Disc florets (2-) 3-8; corolla tubes ca. 0.8 mm, throats funnelform, 0.8 mm. Cypselae oblanceolate or subclavate, 2-2.5 mm (those of ray florets longer) ; pappi 0. 2n = 36. (from Flora of North America) |
Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
Date of photograph: | 09 Apr 2010 |
Camera make: | Canon |
Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
Shutter speed: | 1/500 s |
ISO speed: | - |
Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
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