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Amellus lychnitis

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Identification
Amellus lychnitis L. [family ASTERACEAE ]
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  • Amellus lychnitis

Flora

Entry for AMELLUS Lychnitis Linn. [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
AMELLUS Lychnitis Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. 1276;—DC. l. c. 214. Lam. ill. t. 682, f. 1, Jacq. coll. 5, t. 10.
AMELLUS tenuifolius Burm. [family COMPOSITAE], (with narrow leaves),DC. l. c. Zey.! 799.
Information
stem suffruticose, erect or diffuse, alternately branched, the branches, foliage, and involucres minutely appresso-pubescent; leaves alternate or opposite, either obovate, lanceolate-oblong-obtuse, or linear, very entire. 1–1 1/2 foot high, pale, much branched. Stem sometimes sparsely pilose, as well as silky. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inch long, 1–3 lines wide, rigidly and closely puberulous. Heads many-fl., 5–6 lines across. A. tenuifolia merely differs in its narrower, more exactly linear leaves, varying on the same bush. Var. β. is in all respects identical with the broad-leaved A. Lychnitis, minus the rays.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape flats, &c., Riebeckskasteel, Drege! Riet Valley, E. Z.! Half way to Stellenbosch, W. H. H.; Namaqualand, Zeyher! (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.)

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