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Gnaphalium splendidum

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Name

Identification
Gnaphalium splendidum Thunb. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Helichrysum splendidum (Thunb.) Less. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Gnaphalium splendidum
  • Helichrysum splendidum

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM splendidum 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 splendidum Less. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Syn. 286;—DC.! l. c. 185.
Gnaphalium splendidum Th. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Cap. 648.
Gnaphalium strictum Link. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
stem shrubby or suffruticose, branches virgate, woolly; leaves sessile, linear or linear-oblong, with revolute margins, nigro-mucronate, on both sides white-woolly; heads subglobose, many-flowered, heterogamous, in densely-crowded, subglobose cymes, short pedicelled; inv. woolly at base, all the scales bright yellow, shining, opaque, oblong, obtuse, subconcave, scarcely radiant. Stems 2–5 feet high; in γ. 6–8 inches, closely or laxly leafy. Leaves 3/4–1 1/2 inch long, 2–3 lines wide, the lowest flattish, all the rest with strongly reflexed edges. Cymes 1–1 1/2 inch diam. Invol. very bright. I find filiform female fl. in all the vars.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Thunb.! Eastern Districts, Burchell, 5047. Winterberg, Mrs. F. W. Barber, 239. Assagaysbosch, on mountains near Goerreshoogte, Mundt! Var. β. Zwarte, Storm, and Witberg, and on Sneeuweberg, Drege! Var. γ. Witberg and Camdebooberg, 6–7000 ft., Drege! Spitzkop, Somerset, Dr. Atherstone! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)

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