Description
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Erect annual or biennial herb to 3 m. Stems branched, the branches and the inflorescence branches glabrous. Leaves c. 5-22 cm long, narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate; apex attenuate. Inflorescence a large terminal panicle. Capitula c. 4 mm long, numerous. Phyllaries in 3-4 rows, the inner longest, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous. Ray florets numerous, the corolla narrowly cylindric, fimbriate at apex. Disk florets fewer, yellow. Achenes of ray florets c. 0.8 mm long, narrowly obovate, flattened, ± 2-ribbed, minutely tuberculate; those of the disk florets narrowly oblong, 2-4-ribbed and not tuberculate.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Conyza attenuata DC. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=158920
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Occasional
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Conyza attenuata DC. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=158920
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Widely distributed in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to the DRC, Ethiopia. Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Also in Madagascar.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Conyza attenuata DC. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=158920
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings