Pegolettia senegalensis
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Pegolettia senegalensis Cass. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Draaibos |
| English common name(s): | African draaibos |
| Synonym(s): | Pegolettia dubiefiana Quézel Pegolettia senegalensis Cass. forma pygmaea J.A.Schmidt fide Sommerfeltia 24: 326 (1997). |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Perennial herb, sometimes with slightly woody base, 5–30 cm high, much-branched; stems glandular and scabridulous-hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly obovate, 0.5–3.5(–5) x 0.1–0.3 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire or with few teeth, apex obtuse and mucronate, acute or 3-toothed, viscid-glandular and scabridulous on both surfaces. Capitula solitary on small branches but these forming small to large lax leafy corymbs; involucre 5–10 mm long; phyllaries green with yellow tips, pointing upwards, after achenes have fallen reflexed, lanceolate, 2–10 mm long, acute, scabridulous and glandular. Florets pale yellow, 14–30, all bisexual, 3.3–5.2 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 3.7–4.5 mm long, ribbed, pilose and sparsely glandular; pappus white, 5–6 mm long, plumose, with an outer row of deeply incised scales to 2 mm long. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Somalia) Annual herb, occasional biennual, sometimes with slightly woody base, 5–60 cm high, much branched; stems glandular and scabridulous-hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly obovate, 0.5–3.5(–5) cm long, 0.1–0.3 cm wide, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire or with few teeth, apex obtuse and mucronate, acute or 3-toothed, glandular and scabridulous on both surfaces. Capitula 5–13 mm long, solitary on small branches but these forming small to large, lax, leafy corymbs; phyllaries green with yellow tips, porrect, after achenes have fallen reflexed, lanceolate, 2–10 mm long, acute, scabridulous and glandular; receptacle honeycombed, with triangular bumps to 0.3 mm long. Florets pale yellow, 14–30, all hermaphrodite, tube cylindric, 3.2–5 mm long, sparsely glandular, lobes 0.1–0.2 mm except for a single adaxial one which is 1.3–1.5 mm long, glandular, anthers 2.3–2.5 mm long, style 6–6.5 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 3.7–4.5 mm long, ribbed, pilose and sparsely glandular; pappus white, 5–6 mm long, plumose, with an outer row of deeply incised scales to 2 mm long. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical East Africa) Annual, paniculately branched, scaberulous, with short crisp hispid hairs, subglutinous above, 0.333–2 ft. high; branches subterete, striate. Leaves linear or oblanceolate, deltoid or subacute at apex, usually apiculate, gradually narrowed towards the base, sessile, entire or with a few irregular remote teeth above,0.5–1.333 in. long by 0.0625– 0.3125 in. wide; uppermost smaller, bract-like, subulate. Capitula campanulate, 18–30-flowered, 0.333– 0.5 in. long, solitary at the ends of the numerous pedunculiform branches. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate, acute, falling short of the florets; inner linear-lanceolate, with scarious margins; outer shorter, linear-subulate, often recurving. Receptacle alveolate; margins of alveoli toothed. Florets at first yellow, at length purple. Achenes oblong, 0.167 in. long, 10–12-costate, with scattered rather rigid hairs. Pappus biseriate, subfulvous; inner subplumose; outer 1/3 as long, subpaleaceous, multifid. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical Africa) |
| 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: | 15 Jun 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/640 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
