Helichrysum subglomeratum
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Gnaphalium subglomeratum (Less.) Sch. Bip. |
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| Status: | Native |
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Perennial herb with several flowering stems, 10-60 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves in a basal rosette, elliptic, oblong or spathulate, 1-2 cm long, sessile, densely white woolly on both sides; stem leaves, oblanceolate-oblong, up to 2 × 0.5 cm, becoming much smaller higher on the stems, covered in silvery silky hairs. Capitula in more or less dense terminal flattened corymbose heads, matted with dense woolly hairs below. Involucral bracts 3-4-seriate, c. 2.5 mm long, lanceolate, brownish-tipped with bright yellow, sometimes tinged brown. Florets bright yellow. |
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| Habitat: | In grassy vleis. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa as far as Eastern Cape. |
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| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Lk,S |
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| Images last updated: | Thursday 4 August 2016 |
| Literature: |
Hilliard, O.M. (1983). Asteraceae, Inuleae, Gnaphaliinae Flora of Southern Africa 33-7-2 Pages 82 - 84. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 26. Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 199. Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 12 - 13. |
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