Hirpicium angustifolium (O. Hoffm.) Roessler

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Hirpicium angustifolium

Picture: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park

Hirpicium angustifolium

Picture: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park

Hirpicium angustifolium

Picture: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park

Hirpicium angustifolium

Picture: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park

Hirpicium angustifolium

Picture: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms: Gazania angustifolia O. Hoffm.
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Status: Native
Description:
Tufted perennial herb up to 30 cm high, growing from a small rootstock with numerous, somewhat fleshy roots; rootcrowns densely woolly. Stems annual, 1–3, purplish, more or less woolly and with scattered weak, brown or purplish bristles. Leaves basal, erect, numerous, filiform-linear, up to 30 cm long, sparsely scabridulous or hairless above, densely woolly beneath except for the midrib; margin entire, rolled under except below, ciliate mostly near the base. Capitula solitary and terminal. Involucres 5–10 mm. in diam., woolly, sometimes with a few small bristles. Rays yellow, often brown or purplish outside, oblanceolate, 15–20 mm long; margin sometimes inrolled. Disk-floret yellow, 4.5–5.5 mm long. Achenes obconic, c. 2 mm long, somewhat sticky glandular, densely silvery hairy; pappus scales uniseriate, brownish-hyaline, overlapping, oblong, 2.5–3 mm long, fimbriate about the apex.
Type location:
Tanzania
Notes: This species is very similar to Gazania krebsiana which is also found in the same type habitat. It is best distinguished by the more or less densely rootcrown, stems and involucre. Differences in the achene and pappus make this a Hirpicium and not a Gazania.
Derivation of specific name: angustifolium: with long and narrow leaves.
Habitat: A pyrophyte, in burnt seasonally wet grassland.
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Worldwide distribution: Eastern DRC, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,W
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Content last updated: Wednesday 10 April 2019
Literature:

Beentje, H.J. (ed.) (2000). Compositae (Part 1) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 297 - 298.

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 99. (Includes a picture).

Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 31.

Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 251 - 252.

Roessler, H. (1975). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca Area, 5 Subtribe Gorteriinae. Kirkia 10(1) Page 95.

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Hirpicium angustifolium.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=202190, retrieved 28 March 2024

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