Forsskaolea hereroensisSchinz [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Forsskaolea hereroensis
Flora
Entry for Forsskaolea hereroensis [family URTICACEAE]
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
Forsskaolea hereroensis [family URTICACEAE]
Information
Woody annual herb up to 1 m high, much branched. Stems with curved broad-based, stiff hairs interspersed with shorter puberulous hairs. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 17-40 x 10-26 mm, apex broadly acute, base decurrent, margin with teeth obsolete or in up to 4 pairs, with broad-based curved hairs, upper surface with scattered slender hooked hairs, lower surface usually with dense white wool, wool thinner on veins which often have curved broad-based, stiff hairs; petiole ± 10-30 mm long; stipules broadÂly ovate, apex abruptly acuminate, base cordate, membranous with thicker midrib, fringed with long stiff hairs. Inflorescence with (6-)8-12-lobed involucre, dimensions of lobes as in key, otherwise as for genus. Flowers as for genus. Achenes shortly stipitate, ovoid, 2.5-3.0 x 1.50-2.25 mm, dark brown. Figure 6: 7, 8.
Endemic to Namibia and the Northern Cape. On rocky hillsides and in riverbeds, usually in shade. Trasitional forms between F. hereroensis and F. viridis (no. 2) are known from northern Namibia, and between F. hereroensis and F. candida (no. 3) from central and southern Namibia (see Merxmuller & Roessler 1980). Map 15.
