Cotula nigellifolia (Dc.) K.Bremer & Humphries

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Cotula

Characteristics

Creeping or decumbent, annual or perennial herb, stems up to 300 mm long. Leaves alternate, 2 or 3x pinnate, ultimate segments linear, acute, glabrous or hispidulous. Capitula radiate, solitary on long nude peduncles; involucral bracts in 2 rows, elliptic to ovate. Ray florets short and broad, white. Disc florets cylindric, 4-lobed, yellow. Flowering time Nov.-May. Pappus absent. Cypselae oblong, those of ray florets compressed, those of disc florets angled, all with thickened lateral ribs and large glands on each face.
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Straggling to decumbent, glabrescent perennial rooting from lower nodes, to 30 cm. Leaves irregularly bipinnatisect, lobes linear to oblong. Flower heads shortly radiate, globose, solitary in upper leaf axils, yellow with white or yellow rays.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Light -
Soil humidity 7-12
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal poison
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Images

Cotula nigellifolia unspecified picture

Distribution

Cotula nigellifolia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:975170-1
WFO ID wfo-0000014483
COL ID YYQ4
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Synonyms

Cotula nigellifolia Sphaeroclinium nigellifolium Matricaria nigellifolia Aster secundirameus Cotula nigellifolia var. nigellifolia

Lower taxons

Cotula nigellifolia var. tenuior