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Asteraceae - Eupatorieae - *Campuloclinium DC.

Description:

  • Perennial herbs or subshrubs
  • Leaves opposite or alternate, sessile or on narrowly winged petioles; blades ovate to narrowly oblong
  • Capitula discoid, florets 30-100; in corymbose inflorescences
  • Involucral bracts ± 15-30, eximbricate to weakly subimbricate, in 2 or 3 rows, usually broad
  • Receptacle rounded to conical, with small prominent scars
  • Corolla purplish pink, funnel-shaped with basal tube slightly constricted above nectary; lobes dorsally papillose
  • Style with base usually pubescent; branches with mamillose to papillose appendage
  • Cypselas narrowly cylindric, 4-angled, angles sparsely scabrid, faces black, gland-dotted
  • Pappus of many scabrid bristles, tips pink

Nomenclature:

  • *Campuloclinium DC.
    • Candolle: 136 (1836)
    • Hilliard: 54 (1977) under Eupatorium
    • King & Robinson: 126 (1987)
    • Bremer et al.: 658 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 14, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: *Campuloclinium macrocephalum (Less.) DC., a garden escape, Northern Province, Gauteng, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BREMER, K., ANDERBERG, A.A., KARIS, P.O. & LUNDBERG, J. 1994. Tribe Eupatorieae. In K. Bremer, Asteraceae, cladistics & classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1836. Compositae. Prodromus 5. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • HILLIARD, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg
  • KING, R.M. & ROBINSON, H. 1987. The genera of the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 22

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