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Asteraceae - Eupatorieae - *Ageratina Spach

Description:

  • Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs
  • Leaves opposite, alternate or sometimes whorled
  • Capitula discoid; few- to many-flowered, in dense corymb or occasionally paniculate
  • Involucre tubular; bracts in 1-many rows
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Corolla purple, blue or white; tubular and scarcely widened upwards, or cylindric below, campanulate above; lobes 4 or 5, much shorter than tube
  • Anthers obtuse at base
  • Style branches filiform, obtuse, papillose outside
  • Cypselas prismatic or fusiform, setose and/or glandular
  • Pappus of many scabrid, usually deciduous bristles
  • x = 17 (aneuploids, B-chromosomes, polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • *Ageratina Spach
    • Spach: 286 (1841)
    • King & Robinson: 211 (1970)
    • Bremer et al.: 644 (1994)
  • Eupatorium L.
    • Linnaeus: 836 (1753) in part
    • Hilliard: 52 (1977)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 290, America
  • Southern Africa: Species 3, naturalised, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape

References:

  • BREMER, K., ANDERBERG, A.A., KARIS, P.O. & LUNDBERG, J. 1994. Tribe Eupatorieae. In K. Bremer, Asteraceae, cladistics & classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • HILLIARD, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg
  • KING, R.M. & ROBINSON, H. 1970. Ageratina. Phytologia 19,4
  • LINNAEUS, C. VON. 1753. Species plantarum. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • SPACH, E. 1841. Histoire naturelle des végétaux. Roret, Paris