e-Key v3 - *Soliva
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Asteraceae - Anthemideae - *Soliva Ruiz & Pav.

Description :

  • Annual herbs
  • Leaves alternate, pinnatisect
  • Capitula disciform, solitary, sessile, surrounded by leaves
  • Involucral bracts in 2 subequal rows
  • Receptacle convex or conical, epaleate
  • Marginal florets female, fertile, in several rows; tube and lamina 0
  • Style persistent and spinescent in fruit
  • Disc florets functionally male; corolla 3- or 4-lobed
  • Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate
  • Style branches fused
  • Cypselas glabrous, dorsiventrally flattened, laterally winged; wings sometimes projected into apical teeth, sometimes transversely rugose to sulcate
  • Pappus 0

Nomenclature:

  • *Soliva Ruiz & Pav.
    • Ruiz & Pavón: 113, t. 24 (1794)
    • Tutin: 178 (1976)
    • Bremer & Humphries: 159 (1993)
    • Bremer: 477 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 8, mainly South America but also North America and Australia
  • Southern Africa : Species 1: *Soliva sessilis Ruiz & Pav., naturalised as weed, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae , cladistics & classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • BREMER, K. & HUMPHRIES, C. 1993. Generic monograph of the Asteraceae - Anthemideae . Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Botany Series 23
  • RUIZ, L.H. & PAVÓN, J.A. 1794. Flora peruvianae, et chilensis prodromus . Sancha, Madrid
  • TUTIN, T.G. 1976. Soliva . Flora europaea 4