Distribution Map

Pupalia lappacea var. lappacea

                   
   
(Pupalia lappacea)

Amaranthaceae Amaranthoideae  

(exotic - see Alien Plants Database)

As at April 2024, 9 herbarium specimens, 3 photo records, 9 visual observations
Found within protected areas: Mlawula
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.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.