Entry for EURYOPS sulcatus Harv. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
EURYOPS sulcatusHarv. [family COMPOSITAE]
Othonna sulcataThunb. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Cap. p. 719.
Information
glabrous; leaves sessile, closely imbricate, erect or spreading, oblong, obtuse or subacute, rigid, thick, flattish, faintly 3-nerved above, with a medial impressed line or furrow beneath, cartilagineo-ciliolate; pedicels lateral, short; inv. sc. about 5, broadly oblong, obtuse, 3–4-nerved, subconnate at base; rays 2–3, short; recept. convex, honey-combed; ovaries hairy, achenes woolly. A rigid, more or less robust shrub, with the aspect of E. lateriflorus, from which it is at once known by its elegantly ciliolate leaves. Leaves 6–7 l. long, 3 l. wide; in β. 4–6 l. long 2 l. wide. Pedicels uncial. Heads few-flowered.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Thunberg! β. Rhinosterkop, Burke & Zey.! Sand R., Zey.! (Herb. Th., Hk., Sd.)