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Dimorphotheca cuneata

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Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) DC. [family ASTERACEAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE/ASTERACEAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE/ASTERACEAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE/ASTERACEAE]
Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less.
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata DC. [family ASTERACEAE]
Filed as Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
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Dimorphotheca cuneata (Thunb.) Less. [family ASTERACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for DIMORPHOTHECA cuneata 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
DIMORPHOTHECA cuneata Less. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Syn. 257;—DC. l. c. p. 72.
Calendula cuneata Th. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Cap. 705.
Calendula viscosa Andr. [family COMPOSITAE], Rep. t. 412.
Arctotis glutinosa Sims [family COMPOSITAE], Bot. Mag. t. 1343.
Information
shrubby, much-branched, glandular, viscidulous; leaves crowded, cuneate or oblongo-obovate, or lanceolate, coarsely or sharply few-toothed, thick, obscurely midribbed, glabrous or nearly so, gland-dotted, subdecurrent; pedunc. short, glanduloso-pubescent; invol. scales linear-acuminate, minutely puberulous, pale-edged, barbato-ciliate near the apex; rays yellow; disc-fl. with glabrous teeth, the outer fertile; achenes of the ray (?); of the disc flattened, obcordate, with a wide, thick-rimmed marginal wing. Young plants suffruticose, with long, slender fl. branches; old ones rigidly shrubby, twiggy, much and closely branched, the old branches naked, and rough with the bases of old leaves, the younger short, leafy. Leaves variable in shape and size, always much narrowed at base, and generally sharply toothed, from 3/4 inch to 1 1/2 inch long, the young ones minutely glanduloso-puberulous. Stems and leaves exude viscid, strong-scented substance. Pedunc. 2–3 inches long; in young plants 4–5 inches. Rays yellow, uncial. I have not seen any ripe achenes of the ray.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Thunberg! Nieuwe Hantum and Graaf Reynet, Drege! Uitenhage and Albany, frequent, E. & Z.! Mrs. F. W. Barber! Zey.! 2812, 3066. Natal, Miss Owen! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)

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