| Brenandendron frondosum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Brenandendron |
| Species: | B. frondosum |
| Binomial name | |
| Brenandendron frondosum | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Brenandendron frondosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae . [2] It is native to tropical Africa.
Brenandendron frondosum (also known as Vernonia frondosa) of the Composite, or Daisy Family (Compositae, or Asteraceae), grows as a shrub or small tree, measuring up to 20 feet (6 m) tall, with a trunk girth of about 1 ft (0.3 m). The sessile leaves measure up to 3 ft (1 m) long and twenty inches (51 centimeters in width. [3] Inflorescences feature purple flowers. [4]
Brenandendron frondosum is native to Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon. [1] Its habitat is in forest clearings. [4]
Bidens is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. The genus include roughly 230 species which are distributed worldwide. Despite their global distribution, the systematics and taxonomy of the genus has been described as complicated and unorganized. The common names beggarticks, black jack, burr marigolds, cobbler's pegs, Spanish needles, stickseeds, tickseeds and tickseed sunflowers refer to the fruits of the plants, most of which are bristly and barbed. The generic name refers to the same character; Bidens comes from the Latin bis ("two") and dens ("tooth").
Gerbera L. is a genus of plants in the Asteraceae (Compositae) family. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J. D. Hooker in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton daisy. Gerbera is also commonly known as the African daisy.
Bidens frondosa is a North American species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of Canada, the United States, and Mexico It is known in many other parts of the world as an introduced species, including Europe, Asia, Morocco, and New Zealand. Its many common names include devil's beggarticks, devil's-pitchfork, devil's bootjack, sticktights, bur marigold, pitchfork weed, tickseed sunflower, leafy beggarticks, and common beggar-ticks.
Melanthera, is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America, as well as Africa, Asia and Oceania, including Hawaiʻi.
Blainvillea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Australia, and Latin America.
Conoclinium coelestinum, commonly known as blue mistflower, mistflower, wild ageratum, or blue boneset, is a North American species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium, but phylogenetic analyses in the late 20th century research indicated that that genus should be split, and the species was reclassified in Conoclinium.
Elephantopus mollis, common names tobacco weed, and soft elephantsfoot, is a tropical species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
Brenandendron is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical Africa. The genus is named for the British botanist John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan and its species were formerly placed in the genus Vernonia.
Brenandendron donianum is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to West and West-Central Africa.
Cabobanthus bullulatus is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical Africa.
Cabobanthus polysphaerus is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical Africa.
Orbivestus albocinerascens is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to East Africa.
Orbivestus bamendae is a plant in the family Asteraceae.
Orbivestus cinerascens is a plant in the family Asteraceae.
Orbivestus homilanthus is a plant in the family Asteraceae.
Orbivestus karaguensis is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Africa.
Orbivestus turbinata is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical Africa.
Oocephala agrianthoides is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Central Africa.
Oocephala stenocephala is a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical Africa.
Ozothamnus vauvilliersii is a species of shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to New Zealand.
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