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Gerbera ovalifolia

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Name

Identification
Gerbera ovalifolia DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] Gerbera piloselloides (L.) Cass. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Piloselloides hirsuta (Forssk.) C.Jeffrey ex Cufod. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gerbera ovalifolia
  • Piloselloides hirsuta
  • Gerbera piloselloides

Flora

Entry for GERBERA piloselloides Cass. [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 piloselloides Cass. [family COMPOSITAE], Dict. 18, p. 461;—DC. l. c. 16.
Arnica piloselloides Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], Amoen. 6, 108.
Gerbera Schimperi Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hb. Schimp! No. 185.
Gerbera ovalifolia DC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c. 17.
Information
leaves elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute, tapering into a short petiole, entire or repando-denticulate, sparsely setose or nude above, beneath and on the margins softly hairy; scape shaggy and somewhat thickened at the apex; inv. sc. erect in fruit; ripe achenes long-beaked, papulose, striate. Leaves 3–5 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 wide. Pedunc. 4–12 in. long. Rays turning dark-brown in drying. I cannot distinguish G. ovalifolia, DC.!, which is widely spread through temperate India; our Cape plant has certainly papulose achenes.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Round Capetown and in the W. districts, Burchell, W.H.H. and Drakenstein, W.H.H. Caledon, E. & Z. Uitenhage, Eckl. Witberg, Katberg, and Omtata and Basche R., Drege! Br. Kaffraria, T. Cooper, 172. Kreilis Country, H. Bowker! 243. Bigarsberg, Natal, Gerr. & McK. 1042. Var. β. Zuureberg, Drege, Thunberg! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.)

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