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Euryops pinifolius

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Name

Identification
Euryops socotranus Balf.f. [family ASTERACEAE ] Euryops arabiscus Steud. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Alexander,D., Euryops pinifolius A.Rich. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Nordenstam,B.,
Related name
  • Euryops arabiscus
  • Euryops arabicus
  • Euryops socotranus
  • Euryops floribundus
  • Euryops hildebrandtii
  • Euryops linifolius
  • Euryops pinifolius

Flora

Entry for EURYOPS pinifolius A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
EURYOPS pinifolius A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Abyss. i. p. 445, t. 60.
Information
A procumbent glabrous undershrub; branches woody, terete, densely leafy or closely marked with the scars and pulvini of fallen leaves. Leaves linear, obtuse, fleshy, subterete, 1/4–1 in. long, sessile. Peduncles terete, rigid, solitary in the upper axils, 1 1/4–2 1/2 in., corymbosely arranged, straw-coloured. Involucre hemispherical, 1/3– 2/5 in. diameter, composed of about 12 ovate-oblong bracts, connate nearly half way. Capitula solitary, many-flowered; marginal florets ligulate; ligules oblong 4–5-nerved, 3/8 in. long. Disk-florets about equalling the involucre. Achenes glabrous.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Oudgerate, Petit!Somaliland Nile Land alt. 6,000 feet, Hildebrandt!
Notes
E. arabicus, Steud. (Caræa pinifolia, Hochst.) in Herb. Schimp. Arab. n. 852, much resembles our species but perhaps differs by shorter peduncles and fewer involucral bracts.

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