Laggera decurrens
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Dried flowers
24 Sep 2008
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Fluted stems
24 Sep 2008
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Flower
24 Sep 2008
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Flower
26 Sep 2009
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Flowers
26 Sep 2009
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Seeds
26 Sep 2009
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Laggera decurrens (Vahl) Hepper & J.R.I.Wood |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Wolbos, Pietbos |
| English common name(s): | Silky sage, Blue-green bitterbush |
| Synonym(s): | Blumea decurrens (Vahl) Merxm. accepted by FTA Blumea gariepina DC. Laggera decurrens (Vahl) Hepper & J.R.I.Wood accepted by FSA Laggera gariepina (DC.) Randeria |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Bushy annual aromatic herb, up to 2 m tall, most parts covered in silky, silvery-grey hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong, up to 30 x 5 mm, base decurrent, running into the stem as narrow, entire wings. Capitula in branched large terminal inflorescences; involucral bracts numerous in 4 series. Florets yellow or whitish. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Shrubby herb 0.45–1.2 m high, aromatic; stems with wings 1–3 mm wide. Leaves grey-green, narrowly elliptic, 1–4.5 cm long, 0.2–0.7 cm wide, acute or obtuse, densely tomentellous and glandular. Capitula solitary or in leafy corymbs; involucre 5–8 mm long. Florets yellow, the outer filiform, many, the inner slightly wider, 3.5–5 mm long, fewer than the outer. Achenes narrowly cylindrical, ±1 mm long, pubescent; pappus of white bristles 3–5 mm long. (from JSTOR website / Flora Somalia) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
