Entry for DICOMA Zeyheri Sond. [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
DICOMA ZeyheriSond. [family COMPOSITAE], ! in Linn. xxiii. p. 71;—Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 68.
Information
stem herbaceous, erect, cobwebby-canescent, simple or subcorymbose at the summit; leaves oblongo-lanceolate or oblong, acute, narrowed at base, soon quite glabrous above and netted-veined, white-woolly beneath, with slightly reflexed edges, entire or distantly subdenticled; heads pedicelled, ovate; invol. sc. multiseriate, shining, broadly lanceolate-acuminate, concave, pungent, the outer spreading or reflexed. Very like D. speciosa, but much more woolly, with broader leaves and inv. scales, and no empty bracts on the pedicels.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Magalisberg, Burke & Zeyher! Zey.! 1031. Zululand Plains, Gerr. & M'K. 1028. (Herb. Hook., D., Sd.)
