Conyza newiiOliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Conyza newii
Flora
Entry for CONYZA Newii O. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
CONYZA NewiiO. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
Extremities terete, puberulous or puberulous-tomentose, with loose short patent hairs on the peduncles and pedicels. Leaves alternate, oval-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, narrowed to the winged petiole, acutely serrate, glabrescent above, thinly hairy beneath, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long. Capitula 1/4 in. diam., on pedicels of 1/4– 1/2 in., in terminal corymbs 2–3 in. broad. Involucral scales sub-membranous, subequal; outer elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, pubescent; inner oblanceolate or oblong. Receptacle pitted, pits with toothed or fimbrilliferous margins. Corolla of ray-florets tubular, much shorter than style, with long loose papillæ at the mouth: of hermaphrodite florets divided 1/3 of its length. Anther-base bidentate. Achenes compressed; setæ of pappus cohering in basal annulus.