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Gnaphalium auriculatum

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Identification
Gnaphalium auriculatum A.Rich. [family COMPOSITAE ] Pseudognaphalium richardianum (Cufod.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Mesfin, T., Gnaphalium auriculatum A.Rich. [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Helichrysum stellatum
  • Pseudognaphalium richardianum
  • Gnaphalium auriculatum

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM crispum 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
HELICHRYSUM crispum Less. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. 310;—DC. l. c. 208.
Gnaphalium crispum Linn. [family COMPOSITAE]
Gnaphalium divaricatum Berg. [family COMPOSITAE], Cap. 250, Th.! Cap. 657.
Gnaphalium polyanthos Th. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. (but not p. 643).
Gnaphalium auriculatum Lam. [family COMPOSITAE], non Th.
Information
stem shrubby or suffruticose, branches widely spreading, woolly, more or less pedunculate at the extremity; leaves half-clasping and eared at base, fiddle-shaped, obtuse, undulate, thinly woolly above, white-woolly beneath; heads in densely-branched, woolly, corymbose cymes, subglobose, glabrous; inv. scales oblong, obtuse, cream-white or primrose colour. Stems 2–4 feet long, flexuous, with widely spreading branches, all parts woolly. Leaves 1/2–1 1/2 inch long, very wide at the extremity, contracted in the middle, expanded and stem-clasping at base. Heads as in H. petiolatum.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Round Capetown and on the Flats. Paarl, Drege! Zey.! 2861. Var. β. on the Cape Flats, Wallich! Zeyher! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)

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