Entry for ASTER erigeroides Harv. [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
ASTER erigeroidesHarv. [family COMPOSITAE]
Felicia erigeroidesDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 219.
Information
shrubby; branches virgate, appressedly pubescent, leafy; leaves obovate, elliptic-oblong or broadly linear, obtuse, mostly 3-nerved, narrowed to the base, sparsely hispid becoming glabrous, serrulato-ciliolate; axils bearing leaf-tufts; lateral twigs naked toward the summit, ending in a fl.-head, forming a thyrsus or panicle of fl.-heads; invol.-scales flattish, acute, ciliate, glabrescent; achenes pubescent, narrow-cuneate. One to two feet high, robust, becoming quite woody. Branches 12–18 inches long, rodlike, closely leafy, bearing toward the summit many short, half-leafy flowering twigs. Leaves 3/4–1 1/4 inch long, 2–4 lines wide: the lateral nerves not always apparent, but often visible even in the narrowest leaves of var. β. The ray-fl. are pink or light purple.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Natal, both α and β., Drege! Krauss! Sanderson! Ger. & McK. 274. γ. Uitenhage, Zeyher! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.)
