Derivation of specific name
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glabratum: hairless
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acanthospermum glabratum (DC.) Wild Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160270
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Description
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Prostrate annual herb (or possibly short-lived perennial). Leaves elliptic to broadly ovate, 1-3 cm long, mostly hairless but gland-dotted; margin coarsely toothed. Capitula pedunculate, 5-7 mm in diameter when flowering, pale yellowish. Fertile achenes usually 4-5, each enclosed in an enlarged inner phyllary, forming an oblong-fusiform fruit, 8-10 mm long, covered with numerous hooked spines.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acanthospermum glabratum (DC.) Wild Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160270
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Worldwide distribution
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Native to South America. Introduced in southern USA and southern Africa.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acanthospermum glabratum (DC.) Wild Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160270
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Acanthospermum glabratum: Brief Summary
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Acanthospermum glabratum, known as creeping starbur, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to southeastern Brazil.
The species is an annual forb with short, glandular leaves that are toothed. Flowers are pale yellow, and fruit is an achene. The species grows in disturbed habitat. Although native to South America, it has become introduced in southern Africa and the United States.
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