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Athanasia filiformis

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Name

Identification
Athanasia filiformis L.f. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Athanasia tomentosa
  • Athanasia filiformis

Flora

Entry for ATHANASIA filiformis Linn. f. [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
ATHANASIA filiformis Linn. f. [family COMPOSITAE], Suppl. 361;—Thunb.! Cap. 634.
Information
much-branched, glabrous or tomentose; leaves linear-semiterete, thickish, acute, crowded, glabrous or tomentose, some occasionally 3-forked; corymb compound, fastigiate, densely many-headed; heads oblong, 10–15-fl.; inv. scales oblong, obtuse, appressed, shorter than the disc; achenes sharply angled; pappus of many squarrose, swollen hairs. 1–2 feet high or more. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inch long, not a line wide, spreading. Corymbs 1 1/2–2 inches across, of 20–50 or more heads. Heads 2–3 lines long, 1 line diam. Both varieties occur together, and differ merely by the varying amount of tomentum, which is often very scanty on var. β. Thunberg's ‘A. tomentosa’ is Morysia velutina, DC.! Paleæ, occasionally very few and slender.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Thunberg! Var. α. and β. Kochman's Kloof, Mundt! E. & Z.! Betwn. Breede and Gauritz R., Drege! Pappe! Cypher Font., P. MacOwan. (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.)

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