9237.000 Bidens L.

Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005) Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa

Tadesse, M. (1993) An Account of Bidens (Compositae: Heliantheae) for Africa Kew Bulletin 48(3) 437-516

Wild, H. (1967) The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 1. Heliantheae. Kirkia 6(1) 1-62

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, divided or compound, namely 2-3-pinnatisect, 3-foliolate or pinnate. Leaflets or lobes varying from linear to broadly ovate. Capitula usually radiate. Phyllaries in 2 series; outer herbaceous, inner usually scarious. Receptacular scales present. Ray florets neuter, sometimes 0; disk florets bisexual. Rays yellow, orange, golden, white or 0. Achenes bilaterally flattened or 3-4(-5)-angled, linear to broadly obovate; margin often thickened or winged. Pappus of 0-5 barbed (forwardly or backwardly) bristles.

Worldwide: 340 species, cosmopolitan, most in the New World but 63 species in Africa.

Mozambique: 10 taxa.

Bidens biternata

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
acuticaulis Sherff var. acuticaulis NDescription, Image
biternata (Lour.) Merr. & SherffN,MS,MDescription, Image
diversa SherffN
kilimandscharica (O. Hoffm.) SherffN,MSDescription
kirkii (Oliv. & Hiern) SherffZ
pilosa L.N,Z,MS,GI,MDescription, Image
pinnatipartita (O. Hoffm.) Willd.N,ZDescription, Image
schimperi Sch. Bip.N,T,MSDescription, Image
steppia (Steetz) Sherff var. garusonis SherffMS
steppia (Steetz) Sherff var. steppia N,Z,T

Other sources of information about Bidens:

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Flora of Botswana: Bidens
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Flora of Malawi: Bidens
Flora of Zambia: Bidens
Flora of Zimbabwe: Bidens
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Bidens

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Bidens
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Bidens
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Bidens
Wikipedia: Bidens
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Bidens
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Bidens

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Bidens.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1532, retrieved 28 March 2023

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