Entry for GERBERA aurantiaca Sch. B. [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
GERBERA aurantiacaSch. B. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c.;—Walp. Rep. 6, 317.
Information
leaves membranous, lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate, acute, tapering much at base into a short petiole, entire or denticulate, setose, becoming nude above, cobwebby-canescent, becoming nude and netted-veined beneath; invol. sc. cobwebbed, sub-biseriate, acuminate; achenes hispid; pappus violet-purple. Leaves 5–6 in. long, 1–2 in. wide, the pubescence of both sides deciduous. Scape woolly, 8–15 inches high, without bracts. Rays (when dry) rich red-brown above, pale beneath; said to be orange when fresh. A very handsome species.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Maritzburg, Natal, Krauss! Dr. Sutherland! J. Sanderson, 154. (Hb. D., Hk.)
