Cotula microglossa O.Hoffm. & Kuntze ex Kuntze

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Cotula

Characteristics

Annual herb, up to 300 mm high; softly and patently villous. Leaves alternate; petiolate?; blade bipinnatisect, lobes linear, apex callous-mucronate, softly villous with long, spreading, slender hairs. Heads disciform, terminal, solitary on long peduncles; peduncles below head broadened, hollow, especially conspicuous in fruiting heads; villous with spreading hairs. Involucral bracts biseriate, ovate to oblong, 1-nerved, margins membranous, glabrous. Receptacle epaleate. Flowers: outer female florets 1-or 2-seriate, with very short or no corolla; disc florets 4-lobed; yellow; Aug.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela oblong-obovate, compressed, wingless but margined. Pappus absent.
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Diffuse, sprawling annual, up to 300 mm tall, branching from below. Leaves mostly in lower half, alternate, bipinnatisect, lobes linear. Flowerheads disciform or obscurely radiate, solitary on long, naked peduncles that become inflated above in fruit, tawny-haired when young; involucral bracts. In 2 rows, 1-nerved, glabrous; outer female florets with reduced corolla or corolla shorter than involucral bracts; disc florets bisexual, yellow or orange. Cypselas oblong-obovate.
Diffuse, sprawling, annual herb, branching from below, up to 300 mm high, softly and patently villous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, bipinnatisect, lobes linear. Capitula discoid, solitary on long, naked peduncles, inflated above in fruit, tawny-haired when young; involucral bracts in 2 rows, 1-nerved, glabrous. Disc florets tubular below, widening upwards, 4-lobed, yellow or orange. Flowering time Nov., Dec. Pappus absent. Cypselae oblong-obovate.
Annual herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves bipinnatisect; plants softly and patently villous. Heads terminal, solitary on long peduncles; peduncles below head broadened, hollow-especially conspicuous in fruiting heads. Involucral bracts 1-nerved. Flowers yellow.
Diffuse, sprawling annual branching from below, to 20 cm. Leaves tripinnatisect, lobes linear. Flower heads disciform or obscurely radiate, solitary on long, naked peduncles inflated above in fruit, tawny-haired when young, yellow or orange, bracts 1-nerved.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system -
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 6-7
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 14 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Cotula microglossa unspecified picture

Distribution

Cotula microglossa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:198512-1
WFO ID wfo-0000123684
COL ID YYPP
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cotula microglossa Cenia microglossa Cenia flosculosa