Bidens diversa Sherff

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Habit
Escarpment Brachystegia woodland
Nsama District
Apr 2024
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Leaves
Escarpment Brachystegia woodland
Nsama District
Apr 2024
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Flower
Escarpment Brachystegia woodland
Nsama District
Apr 2024
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Synonyms:	Bidens filiformis Sherff
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Status:	Native
Description:	Leaves pinnate, to 10 cm long, with a filiform rachis and 3–5 filiform segments to 5 cm long, glabrous or sparsely setulose; petiole to 3 cm long. Capitula solitary and terminal; peduncle to 12 cm long; involucre 4–5 mm long; outer phyllaries 8, inner phyllaries reddish brown, glabrous or ciliate. Ray florets yellow, neuter, 8, rays 15–20 x 3–4 mm; disc florets brownish-yellow or orange. Achenes black, narrowly ellipsoid, striate-sulcate and bristly, graded monomorphic, 6–14 mm long; aristae 2, ± 1 mm long, retrorsely barbed at apex.
Type location:	Zambia, Mbala
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique
National distribution:	N
Growth form(s):	Annual.
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Literature:	Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 803. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 84. as Bidens diversa Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 29. As Bidens filiformis Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 28. Wild, H. (1967). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 1. Heliantheae. Kirkia 6(1) Pages 21 - 22. as Bidens filiformis

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