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Arctotis echinata

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Arctotis echinata DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Haplocarpha nervosa (Thunb.) P.Beauv. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Haplocarpha nervosa
  • Arctotis echinata

Flora

Entry for LANDTIA hirsuta Less. [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
LANDTIA hirsuta Less. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. 37;—DC. l. c. 495.
Arctotis echinata DC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l.c. 486.
Landtia media Drege [family COMPOSITAE], ! in Hb. Hk.
Information
leaves hirsute, with jointed hairs above white-woolly beneath, and hirsute on the nerves; outer inv. sc. pilose Leaves radical, tapering at base into a petiole, elliptic-oblong, irregularly toothed, repand or subruncinate, the teeth mucronate, green and very hairy above; penni-nerved, with woolly interspaces beneath, 4–6 inches long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. wide. Pedunc. hirsute, much shorter than leaves. Heads small, few-fl.; outer inv. sc. lanceolate-acuminate, hirsute; inner glabrous, obtuse. Rays yellow.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Thunberg! Caffirland, E. & Z.! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.)

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