Entry for ASTER barbatus 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
ASTER barbatusHarv. [family COMPOSITAE]
Agathæa barbataDC. [family ], l. c. 224.
Information
shrubby, divaricately much-branched; twigs set with long bristles; leaves mostly opposite, crowded, linear-oblong, blunt, thick, on the under side and margin bearing long, stiff bristles; peduncles elongate, glandularly pubescent; invol.-scales linear, acute, setose and barbato-ciliate, glandular; achenes hairy. A rigid, scrubby bush, about a foot high. Lvs. 5–8 lines long, 1–2 lines wide, the longer ones tapering to the base. Pubescence very rigid, except on the pedunc. and invol.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Graaf Reynet, Drege! Riv. Zonderende and Zwarteberg, Zey.! 2755. (Herb. Hk., Sd.)
