Swaziland's Flora Database:
Species Information
Pupalia lappacea (L.) A.Juss. var. lappacea
(name current 2016)
(Pupalia lappacea)
Amaranthaceae
(exotic - see Alien Plants Database)
Growth form: Herb
Found within protected areas
Medicinal
Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Pupalia lappacea - Slender, elongated, straggling, little branched, thinly hairy. Leaves opposite, stalks thin, c 1 cm long, blade oval, c 3 cm long X 1,5 cm wide. Inflorescence terminal, up to 15 cm long, with irregularly spaced spherical flower-clusters up to 1 cm diam, each with one or two fertile flowers surrounded by star-bike cluster of very hooked spines, woolly hairs present between flowers.
* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.
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