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Edmondia fasciculata

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Name

Identification
Edmondia fasciculata (Andr.) Hilliard [family COMPOSITAE/ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2007 Helipterum fasciculatum (Andr.) DC. [family COMPOSITAE/ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Edmondia fasciculata
  • Helipterum fasciculatum

Flora

Entry for Edmondia fasciculata [family ASTERACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Edmondia fasciculata [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
Xeranthemum fasciculatum Andr., Bot. Rep. t. 242 (1802). Aphelexis fasciculata (Andr.) D. Don in Mem. Wern. nat. Hist. Soc. 5: 546 (1826). Helichrysum fasciculatum (Andr.) Willd., Sp. PI. 3: 1909 (1804). Helipterum fasciculatum (Andr.) DC, Prodr. 6: 214 (1838). Helichrysum sesamoides var. fasciculatum (Andr.) Harv. in F.C. 3: 255 (1865).
Information
Closely resembles E. sesamoides (above) in foliage, fimbrils and achenes, but differs in its more robust habit, peduncles scaly for 20—60 mm below the heads, and bright golden-yellow involucral bracts (the outermost bracts may be brown). Fig. 62:3.
Habitat
The late flowering of E. fasciculata further distinguishes it from E. sesamoides, which flowers in spring. The two species are frequently sympatric, and we have seen them on Jona's Kop, in the Riviersonder-end Mountains, in September, when E. fasciculata was in tight bud, E. sesamoides in full flower.
Use
2. Edmondia fasciculata (Andr.) Hilli­ard, comb. nov. Type: a plant introduced from the Cape by Niven, probably no specimen kept.
Range
Recorded from the Kamiesberg, then a disjunction to the mountains about Worcester and Ceres, Jonkershoek, and Riviersonderend Mountains. Grows in shrub communities; at the peak of its flowering in December and January. Map 238.

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