Code
ANYCL
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual
Habitat
Terrestrial
Geographic area
Mediterranea
Anacyclus clavatus (Desf.) Pers.
synonym | Achillea biaristata Spreng. |
synonym | Anacyclus aristulatus Link ex Nyman |
synonym | Anacyclus candolii Nyman |
synonym | Anacyclus capillifolius Maire |
synonym | Anacyclus clavatus subsp. clavatus |
synonym | Anacyclus clavatus var. typicus Fiori & Paol. |
synonym | Anacyclus divaricatus Cav. ex Steud. |
synonym | Anacyclus mucronulatus Hort. ex Steud. |
synonym | Anacyclus pubescens (Willd.) Rchb. |
synonym | Anacyclus pubescens Brot. ex Link |
synonym | Anacyclus tomentosus DC. |
synonym | Anacyclus tomentosus f. glabrus Huter, Porta & Rigo ex Fiori |
synonym | Anacyclus tomentosus var. marginatus Guss. |
synonym | Anthemis biaristata DC. |
synonym | Anthemis clavata Desf. |
synonym | Anthemis incrassata (Hoffmanns. & Link) Link |
synonym | Anthemis mucronulata Hort. ex Steud. |
synonym | Anthemis pubescens Willd. |
synonym | Anthemis sphacelata Willk. |
synonym | Anthemis tubiformis Guss. |
synonym | Chamaemelum incrassatum Hoffmanns. & Link |
synonym | Chamaemelum incrassatum Hoffmanns. ex DC. |
synonym | Chamaemelum tomentosum All. |
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Seedling
Cotyledons oval with rounded apex, 5-6 x 3-4 mm, sessile, glabrous. Primordial leaves erect, lanceolate, divided or not into 3-5 lateral lobes, somewhat hairy. Subsequent leaves 3-5-pinnate, narrowly segmented and mucronate, pubescent. Seedling dark green.
Adult plant
Anacyclus clavatus is an annual, upright plant. Stem branched, up to 60 cm high, hairy. Leaves alternate, bipinnate with linear, mucronate segments; the basal ones are petiolate, more or less rosette-shaped; the stem ones sessile, auriculate. Infloescences in terminal heads about 3 cm (0.4 in.) across, florets tubular yellow, florets ligulate white, 6-12 mm (0.2-0.2 in.) long, sometimes partially or completely absent. Flower-pedoncle enlarged and hollow after flowering. Achenes without pappus, dorso-ventrally compressed, the outer ones winged, the central ones not winged.
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Life cycle
Algeria: Germination of Anacyclus clavatus is in autumn-winter; flowering in February-May.
Morocco: Anacyclus clavatus flowers from February to June.
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Anacyclus clavatus is allogamous/autogamous.
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Anacyclus clavatus is therophytic.
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Growth form
Stem section
Root type
Hollow or solid stem
Stipule type
Fruit type
Achene type
Cotyledon type
Upperface pilosity
Upperface hair type
Lamina section
Flower color
Inflorescence type
Stem pilosity
Stem hair type
Life form
Anacyclus clavatus is a C3 species.
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Algeria: Anacyclus clavatus is a common species in Algerian cereal systems (winter cereals-fallow) and in rainfed intercrops (leguminous plants), which is confirmed by the profusion of vernacular names. Preference for sandy or silty-sandy soils of sandstone or basalt origin.
Morocco: Anacyclus clavatus is a fairly common species of sandy steppes, pastures and crops on sandy-clay soil, up to 1600 m altitude.
Attributions | Wiktrop |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Habitat
Origin
Anacyclus clavatus is native to the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean rim minus the region between Egypt and Palestine.
Algeria: common everywhere.
Worldwide distribution
This species has been introduced into northern Europe (Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Norway).
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Local harmfulness
Algeria: Anacyclus clavatus is a major "weed". It is one of the most harmful species of field crops because it can colonise practically all ecological environments (very frequent species), moreover its great adaptation to the agricultural environment gives it a very important potential of invading plots (very abundant species).
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Local control
Algeria: Anacyclus clavatus can easily be controlled during the early stages of its development by different cultivation methods, when the base of the stems becomes rigid, it will be difficult to remove the individuals with the hoe. 2,4-D, simazine, and atrazine can be effective in pre-emergence and on young seedlings. Active ingredients such as glufosinate ammonium, linuron, paraquat, metribuzin, etc. will control adult individuals.
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- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:176301-1
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/anacyclus-clavatus.html
- Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979-1981. Flore de la Tunisie. Publications Scientifiques tunisiennes, Tunis.
- Blanca G., Cabezudo B., Cueto M., Torres C.M. & Salazar C. (eds) 2011. Flora Vascular de Andalucía Oriental. 2ème édition, Universidades de Almería, Granada, Jaén y Málaga, Granada, 1751 p.
- Quézel P. & Santa S. 1962-1963. Nouvelle Flore de l’Algérie et des régions désertiques méridionales. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1170 p.
- Careme C. 1990. Les adventices des cultures méditerranéennes en Tunisie. Leurs plantules, leurs semences. Publications agricoles n°26, Tunis, 399 p.
- Fennane M., Ibn Tattou M., Ouyahya A. & El Oualidi J. Flore Pratique du Maroc. Manuel de détermination des plantes vasculaires. Travaux de l’Institut Scientifique, Série Botanique, Vol. 1 (1999), Vol. 2 (2007), Vol. 3 (2014).
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:176301-1
- Kazi Tani C., Grard P. & Le Bourgeois T., 2021. "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/anacyclus-clavatus.html
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Anacyclus%2520clavatus
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Asterales |
Family | Asteraceae |
Genus | Anacyclus |
Species | Anacyclus clavatus (Desf.) Pers. |