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Helichrysum abyssinicum

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Identification
Helichrysum splendidum (Thunb.) Less. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Helichrysum abyssinicum Sch.Bip. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gnaphalium abyssinicum
  • Helichrysum splendidum
  • Helichrysum abyssinicum

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM splendidum (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Names
HELICHRYSUM splendidum (Thunb.) Less. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. Comp.: 286 (1832); DC., Prodr. 6: 6: 185 (1838); Moeser in E.J. 44: 284 (1910); A.V.P.: 204, 342 (1957); Hilliard, F.S.A. 33, 7 (2): 216, fig. 45/1 (1983); Mesfin & T. Reilly in D.J.N. Hind et al. (eds), Adv. Comp. Syst.: 416 (1995). Type: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Thunberg sheet 19257 (UPS, holo.)
Gnaphalium splendidum Thunb. [family COMPOSITAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap. 2: 149 (1800)
Gnaphalium abyssinicum Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Zeit. 3: 174 (1845). Types: Ethiopia, Mt Silke, Feb. 1840, Schimper 663 (BM, K!, UPS, syn.) & Mts Kubbi, June 1837, Schimper 127 (BM, K!, P!, syn.)
Helichrysum abyssinicum (Sch. Bip.) A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 423 (1848); Vatke in Linnaea 39: 491 (1875); Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 351 (1877); T.T.C.L.: 152 (1949)
Helichrysum hendersonae S. Moore [family COMPOSITAE], in J.L.S. 37: 316 (1906). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Henderson s.n. (BM!, holo.)
Helichrysum acrobates Bullock [family COMPOSITAE], in K.B. 1933: 149 (1933); T.T.C.L.: 152 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Mbulu District, Hanang, Burtt 2279 (K!, holo.)
Information
Woody herb or shrublet 0.1–1.4 m high; branches ± virgate, closely leafy, thinly grey-woolly but glabrescent when older; branches with marcescent leaves or leaf scars on the older parts. Leaves silvery-grey, sessile, linear to lanceolate, 1–3.5 cm long, 0.1–1 cm wide, base half-clasping, margins revolute, apex subacute or obtuse and mucronate, grey-white tomentose on both surfaces or less so above. Capitula 4–6 mm long, heterogamous, in dense globose clusters which are solitary or united in terminal (globose) corymbs, 1.5–5 cm in diameter; capitula subsessile; phyllaries bright yellow, glossy, 4–5-seriate, the inner distally radiating, ovate to oblong, 1.5–4.5 mm long, acute; receptacle honeycombed. Florets yellow, 40–55(–105); outer 5–14, tube narrowly infundibuliform, 2.1–2.8 mm long, lobes 0.1–0.3 mm long, style 2.2–3 mm long; inner 36–43(–80), tube infundibuliform, 2.4–3 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.4 mm long, glandular, anthers 1.5–1.6 mm long, style ± 3.6 mm long. Achenes 0.7–1 mm long, papillose or glandular (F.S.A. says with duplex hairs); pappus white, 2.5–3.5 mm long, caducous in bunches.
Range
DISTR. T 2, 3, 7
Altitude range
(2000–)2700–4800 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbulu District Mt Oldeani, Jan. 1989, Pócs & Chuwa 89003/b!;TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, Mawenzi, Feb. 1934, Greenway 3724!;TANZANIA Njombe District Itulo Plateau, Nov. 1966, Gillett 17745!
Distribution (external)
; Sudan
Ethiopia
Malawi
Zimbabwe
South Africa

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