Entry for GAZANIA arctotoides Less. [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
GAZANIA arctotoidesLess. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Syn. 48;âDC. l. c. 510.
Information
rhizome slender, multifid; subradical leaves petioled, glabrous (or cobwebbed) and smooth above, white beneath, mostly pinnatipartite, the lobes short, obovate, obtuse or acute, cartilagineo-serrulate along the margin; pedunc. cobwebbed; inv. cylindrical, few-flowered, subtomentose; scales 2-seriate, the outer deltoid, acute, inner ovate, subobtuse, all very short. Leaves 2â2 1/2 inches long, lobes 4â5-pair, 3 lines long, 1 line wide. Inv. 1/2 inch long, 3â4 l. wide at summit, 1 1/2 l. at base. I have only seen a very poor specimen.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Gamko, Mundt and Maire! (Herb. Sond.)