Dichrocephala latifolia

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Dichrocephala latifolia< /i> (Lam. Ex Poir.) Dc. • Grangea Latifolia

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants Database , New Zealand Plant Name Database, Flora of Japan, Flora Malesiana, Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Tropicos, Euro+Med, LCR Editor, Vietnam Flora. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:D029284C-0E41-43EF-8065-9784D9953CBB

Last scrutiny: 29-Oct-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Dichrocephala

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Further Reading

• A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants, by E. D. Merrill. Singapore, Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921 url p. 587, p. 587.
• A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon: containing descriptions of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to the island, and notes on their history, distribution, and uses: with an atlas of plates illustrating some of the more inte by Henry Trimen. London: Dulau, 1893-1931. url p. 408.
• A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883, New York, Harper, 1885. url .
• A systematic catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to or growing wild in Ceylon. Colombo: G. J. A. Skeen, 1885. url .
• Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url , p. 587.
• Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. .. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1896-1901. url p. 544.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 162, p. 521.
• Contributions to the flora of Siam [Aberdeen]Printed for the University1912- url p. 113.
• Contributions to the flora of Siam. .. / by William Grant Craib. .. [Aberdeen]: Printed for the University of Aberdeen, 1912- url p. 113.
• Flora Hongkongensis; a description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong. LondonL. Reeve1861 url p. 173.
• Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 299, p. 300.
• Flora hongkongensis: a description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong. London, L. Reeve, 1861. url .
• Flora of tropical Africa. By Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. London, L. Reeve, 1868-1902. url p. 303.
• Hooker, W. J. & G. A. W. Arnott. The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage;comprising an acount of the plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition, during the voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait, performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey. .. in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28.By Sir William Jackson Hooker. .. and G. A. Walker Arnott. .. 1841 London, H. G. Bohn, 1841. url p. 458.
• Icones plantarum formosanarum nec non et contributiones ad floram formosanam: or, Icones of the plants of Formosa, and materials for a flora of the island, based on a study of the collections of the Botanical survey of the Government of Formosa / By B. Hayata. .. Taihoku: Bureau of Productive Industry, Government of Formosa, 1911-1921. url p. 45.
• Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society: official publication of the Coryndon Memorial Museum (Museum Trustees of Kenya). Nairobi, Kenya: The Museum, 1942-[1960] url p. 95.
• Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society. Botany. 7 1864 London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, &amp; Roberts: ||Williams and Norgate, 1857-1864. url p. 178, p. 200.
• Leaflets of Philippine botany. 1 1906 Manila: Oriental Printing Co., 1906-1939. url p. 127.
• Madagascar: an environmental profile IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 345, p. 359.
• Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 7 1912-1913 Edinburgh: H. M. Stationery Off. url p. 48.
• Observations of a naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 and 1899 / by H.B. Guppy. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903-1906. url p. 612.
• Oliver, D. Flora of tropical Africa /by Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. 3 1877 London: L. Reeve and co., 1868-1999. url p. 303.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 url p. 559.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 327, p. 647.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 11, p. 203.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 15 1877 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts &amp; Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 147, p. 182, p. 205, p. 406, p. 435, p. 506, p. 530, p. 541, p. 70.
• The Philippine journal of science. 2 1907 Manila. url p. 309, p. 394, p. 447.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 415.
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 45.
• The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. 3 1882 London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 245.
• The flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney Hill-tops / by P.F. Fyson; with 580 full page illustrations and 4 maps by Lady Bourne, Mrs. Fyson and others. Madras: Printed by the Supt., Govt. Press, 1915-1920. url , p. 221.
• The flora of the presidency of Bombay / By Theodore Cooke. London: Taylor and Francis, 1903-08. url p. 14.
• The genera of South African plants: arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey. Cape Town: J.C. Juta, 1868. url p. 175.
• Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. [Edinburgh]: The Society, 1891-1970. url p. 396.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 4 1894-1896 London. url p. 188, p. 524.
• Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 18 1907 Cape Town, : The Society. url p. 168.
• Viti: an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860-61. By Berthold Seemann. . Cambridge, Macmillan & Co., 1862 url p. 438.
• Wissenschaftliche ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Africa-Expedition, 1907-1908: unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910- url p. 366, p. 631.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8741373
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-3443
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15126335
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:140800-3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2025046

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