Entry for HELICHRYSUM chlorochrysum DC. [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
HELICHRYSUM chlorochrysumDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 179
Information
stem shrubby, erect, branched; branches densely leafy to the summit; leaves sessile, broadly ovate or ovato-lanceolate, imbricated, subsquarrose, acuminate, several nerved, closely silky-canescent; heads corymbose, ovate or subglobose; invol. scarcely radiating, the scales ovate-acute, the innermost shorter, obtuse, pale-lemon coloured (greenish when dry). 1–2-f. high, robust. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 inch long, 3–5 lines wide, closely many nerved or striate, when the copious indument has been removed. Heads on short woolly pedicels, 4–5 lines diameter. The leaves resemble those of a Priestleya in shape.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Bontebock'sjagt, at Karsrivier, L. H. Beil, in Hb. Eckl. (Herb. Sond.)