Aspilia ciliata (Schumach.) Wild

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Degraded miombo woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Mar 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Degraded miombo woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Mar 2023
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Aspilia dewevrei O.Hoffm. Aspilia helianthoides (Schumach. & Thonn.) Oliv. & Hiern subsp. ciliata (Schumach.) C.D.Adams Verbesina ciliata Schumach. Wedelia ciliata (Schumach.) Soldano
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Description:	Annual herb 0.3–1.3 m high, usually erect; branches sulcate, scabrid-pilose. Leaves ovate or narrowly ovate, 3–15 x 1–5 cm, base cuneate or rounded and abruptly cuneate, apex acute, margins subentire or shallowly serrate, scabrid on both surfaces; 3-veined from base; petiole absent or to 18 mm long. Capitula in axillary and terminal short corymbs; stalks of individual capitula up to 3.5 cm long; involucre 3-seriate, 7–18 mm long; outer phyllaries herbaceous, inner scarious, scabrid-pilose; paleae 6–9 mm long with the upper part almost appendiculate, acute or abruptly acuminate, ciliate. Ray florets 5–15, yellow or pale yellow, style absent, ray 4–10 mm long, tube 1.7–3 mm, glabrous; disc florets yellow, 3.5–5.3 mm long, glabrous or nearly so; anther-appendages dark to black. Achenes obovoid, ± compressed, 4.7–6 mm long, pilose; pappus a lacerate cupule to 0.5 mm high and usually without setae, sometimes with 2 setae to 2.5 mm long.
Type location:	Ghana
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Derivation of specific name:	ciliata: referring to a fringe of hairs along a margin
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Worldwide distribution:	Widespread from West to East and Central Africa
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Growth form(s):	Annual.
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Literature:	Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 748. Maquet, P. & Lawalree, A. (1985). Asteraceae Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume III Pages 624 - 625. (Includes a picture). Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 59. as Aspilia helianthoides subsp. ciliata Wild, H. (1966). The African Species of the Genus Aspilia Thouars Kirkia 5(2) Pages 205 - 208. as Aspilia helianthoides subsp. ciliata Wild, H. (1967). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 1. Heliantheae. Kirkia 6(1) Pages 41 - 42.

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