Pasaccardoa Kuntze

Pope, G.V. (1992) Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1)

Description of the genus

Annual herbs, or suffrutices with annual stems from woody rootstocks. Vegetative indumentum of fine flagelliform hairs. Leaves alternate, narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic, somewhat discolorous, gland-dotted. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few-many, solitary and terminal on branches sometimes also subsessile along branches, subtended by leaf-like bracts. Phyllaries numerous. Receptacle deeply alveolate. Ray-florets corollas deep-red or creamy-white; ray erect, 3-fid, inner lip wanting; ovary rudimentary, pappus of many narrow scales. Disk-florets deep-red or creamy-white, actinomorphic. Fruit achenes subcylindric, 10-ribbed with numerous stiff white hairs; pappus several-seriate of numerous spreading narrowly lanceolate scales.

Worldwide: 4 species in tropical Africa.

Zambia: 3 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
grantii (Benth. ex Oliv.) KuntzeNDescription, Image
jeffreyi WildN
procumbens (Lisowski) G.V.Pope W

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Pasaccardoa
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pasaccardoa
Plants of the World Online: Pasaccardoa
Tropicos: Pasaccardoa
Wikipedia: Pasaccardoa

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-25

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2025). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Pasaccardoa.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1926, retrieved 2 April 2025

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