Entry for DIMORPHOTHECA Dregei 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
DIMORPHOTHECA DregeiDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 72
Information
“stem shrubby, erect, branched, the branches and leaves rough with glandular [scabrous] pubescence; leaves crowded, sessile, linear-elongate, with 2–3 obtuse teeth on each side, sinuate-dentate, with subreflexed margin; pedunc. naked, one-headed; invol. scales 10–13, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, on the back glandular; achenes of ray oblong, sub-trigonous, muricato-tubercular, of the disc sterile, smooth.” DC. l. c. “A shrublet 4–5 inches high. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, 1–1 1/2 line wide. Fl. unknown.” DC. Only known to me by a frustule, without flowers, in Hb. Sond. It may be a mere var. of D. Tragus.
