Centipeda cunninghamii

Centipeda cunninghamii

Centipeda cunninghamii is a species in the subfamily of herbaceous within the sunflower family ( Asteraceae). It is distributed in Australia.

Description

Centipeda cunninghamii is a relatively small perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of about 20 cm. It smells aromatic. The upright to ascending, well branched, strong stems are initially often woolly hairy, later glabrous. In the change-constant leaves the leaf stalks are hardly recognizable. The light green leaf blade is 1 to 3 cm long, or at a length of about 15 mm and a width of 3 to 4 mm oblong to almost spatulate and tapers towards the base. The leaf margin is serrated short to almost entire.

In Tasmania, the flowering period extends from spring to autumn. The usually solitary pendant, seated, bloom conditions are nearly spherical to biconvex with a diameter of 4 to 8 mm. The bracts are more or less egg-shaped with a blunt top and tiny serrated edge with a length of 2 to 3 mm. There are usually six to eight rows of female flowers and hermaphrodite flowers 10 to 30 in each flower head. The tubular flowers are creamy - green.

The above the ribs bare, yellowish- green achenes are club-shaped with a rounded top with a length of 1.5 to 2.5 mm. There is no pappus present.

Dissemination

It occurs in wetlands almost anywhere in Australia except Queensland, including but rare in northern Tasmania near Launceston and King Iceland.

Taxonomy

The first description was in 1838 under the name ( basionym ) Myriogyne cunninghamii DC. by Augustin de Candolle Pyrame in Prodromus systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis ..., Volume 6, page 139 The recombination to Centipeda cunninghamii ( DC.) A.Braun & Asch. was built in 1867 by Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson. Horto Botanico in index Seminum in Berolinensis, App 1, p.6 published. Another synonym for Centipeda cunninghamii ( DC.) A.Braun & Asch. is Cotula cunninghamii F.Muell.

Use as a medicinal plant

Centipeda cunninghamii has long been used by the Aborigines as a remedy. 1988 by the aura Laboratories of the drug was studied in more detail. However, nothing is known yet accurate about the reason the healing effect. The extract is still, as " Plantolin " ® commercially. It is applied in various forms, and particularly for skin problems.

Swell

  • EA Brown: Data Sheet in the New South Wales Flora Online. ( Description section )
  • Threatened Flora of Tasmania, 2003: Centipeda cunninghamii - Full-Text PDF. (Section Description and dissemination )
Asteroideae Genus Alexander Braun Perennial plant King Island (Tasmania)
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