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Gazania nivea

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Name

Identification
Gazania pygmaea Sond. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Roessler, H., Gazania serrulata DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Roessler, H., Gazania krebsiana Less. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Gazania nivea Leichton [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Gazania serrulata
  • Gazania krebsiana
  • Gazania pygmaea
  • Gazania nivea

Flora

Entry for GAZANIA nivea 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 nivea Less. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Syn. 49;—DC. l. c. 509.
Information
very dwarf; rhizome woody, thick, divided at the summit; leaves crowded (subradical), petioled, hoary-tomentose on both sides, pinnatisect, the segments short, obtuse, linear, channelled; pedunc. not exceeding the leaves; inv. tomentose, truncate at base, lobes 2-seriate, the teeth very short, deltoid, the inner roundish, glabrate, membr.-edged. Stems 1/2 inch long, densely leafy. Leaves, with their petioles, 1–1 1/2 inch long; lobes 1–2 lines long. A very dwarf plant, with the aspect of G. jurineæfolia, but canous in all parts.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Gamko-karroo, Mundt & Maire! (Herb. Sond.)

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