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Edmondia pinifolia

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Identification
Isotype of Helichrysum longebracteatum Schrank [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Edmondia pinifolia (Lam.) Hilliard [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Helichrysum ferrugineum
  • Unrecorded ferrugineum
  • Helichrysum squamosum
  • Helichrysum longebracteatum
  • Gnaphalium andrewsii
  • Edmondia pinifolia
  • Helichrysum pinifolium
  • Helipterum ferrugineum
  • Helipterum humile
  • Helichrysum humile
  • Elichrysum unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Edmondia pinifolia [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 pinifolia [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
Xeranthemum pinifolium Lam., Encycl. 3: 240 (1789). Helipterum humile var. pinifolium (Lam.) DC, Prodr. 6: 214 (1838). Helichrysum pinifolium (Lam.) Schrank in Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Munch. 8: 168 (1824); Levyns in Adamson & Salter, Fl. Cape Penins. 785 (1950); Hilliard & Burtt in Notes R. bot. Gdn Edinb. 32: 358 (1973). X. squamosum Jacq., Collectanea 3:279, t. 20, fig. 2 ('1789', but late 1791 fide Stafleu); Helichrysum squamosum (Jacq.) Thunb., Fl. Cap. 661 (1823) quoad syn.; Gnaphalium squamosum (Jacq.) Sch. Bip. in Bot. Ztg 3: 171 (1845). Type: Cape of Good Hope (no specimen cited). X. humile Andr., Bot. Rep. 10, t. 652 (1812). Aphelexis humilis (Andr.) D. Don in Mem. Wern. nat. Hist. Soc. 5: 547 (1826). Helichrysum humile (Andr.) Less., Syn. Comp. 322 (1832); Harv. in F.C. 3: 255 (1865); Moeser in Bot. Jb. 44: 340 (1910). Helipterum humile (Andr.) DC, Prodr. 6: 214 (1838). Gnaphalium andrewsii O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3: 150 (1898), non G. humile Thunb. Type: cult. spec, introd. from Cape of Good Hope by Niven (lost?). Helichrysum spectabile Lodd., Bot. Cab. 1, t. 59 (1817). Type: the plate cited. Edmondia bracteata Cass, in Diet. Sci. nat. 14: 254 (1819). Type: herb. Jussieu (P). Helichrysum longebracteatum Schrank in Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Munch. 8: 168 (1824). Type: Cape of Good Hope, Brehm s.n. (M, holo.!).
Information
The distinguishing features of E. pini­folia are: Heads large, c. 30 mm long; involucral bracts white or pale to deep pink, the outermost pale to medium brown, and always descending on the peduncle and passing into scale-tipped leaves for 20—60 mm below the head; receptacle with fimbrils about half as long as the ovaries; achenes compressed, with broad semipellucid marg­inal wings and an incipient wing up each face, glabrous. Fig. 62: 2.
Habitat
The peculiar achenes make recognition easy.
Use
3. Edmondia pinifolia (Lam.) Hilliard in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 217 (1981). Type: Cape of Good Hope (P-LAM!).
Range
Recorded only from the mountains of the SW. Cape, from the south Cedarberg to the Peninsula and Kogelberg, Caledon division. Grows in rocky places, often in the crevices of cliffs; flowering between September and December. Map 239.

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