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Gnaphalium grandiflorum

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Identification
Gnaphalium grandiflorum L. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Helichrysum fruticans
  • Gnaphalium fruticans
  • Gnaphalium grandiflorum
  • Gnaphalium latifolium

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM grandiflorum 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 grandiflorum Less. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Syn. 289;—DC.! l. c. 175.
Gnaphalium grandiflorum Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. 1191, Th.! Cap. p. 659. Burm. Afr. t. 76, f. 1.
Gnaphalium fruticans Willd. [family COMPOSITAE], Sieb. No. 202, non Linn.
Information
stems suffruticose and decumbent at base, ascending, elongate, subsimple, ending in a pedunculoid fl. branch, woolly; leaves crowded near the base of the stem, sessile, the lower obovate, the upper oval, ovate or oblong, 3–5-nerved, obtuse, on both sides woolly, those on the peduncle lanceolate or linear, acute, the uppermost bract-like; heads hemispherical, many-fl., homogamous, cymoso-corymbose; inv. scales glabrous and glossy, ovate, acute or subacute, imbricated, not radiating, cream-colour. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Table and Devil's Mt., Ecklon! Drege! Sieber! W.H.H., &c. (Herb. Th.! D., Hk., Sd.)
Notes
Stems many from the base, decumbent and nude at base, then ascending and densely leafy, and ending in a more or less pedunculoid fl. branch, bearing depauperated leaves or bracts. Lower leaves 3–4 inches long, 2–2 1/2 inches wide. Cymes branching, about 2 inches across. The specific name “ grandiflorum ” is peculiarly ill-chosen: it is the leaves, not the fl. heads, which are large. Fl. heads about 3 lines diam.

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