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Helichrysum adenocarpum

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Identification
Helichrysum adenocarpum DC. [family ASTERACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM adenocarpum DC. [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 adenocarpum DC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 180
Information
stem herbaceous, erect, simple or corymbosely branched; branches virgate, loosely woolly and glandular; radical leaves oval or oblong, obtuse, sessile, loosely woolly, cauline sessile, oval-oblong or linear-oblong, densely glandular and often very woolly, the uppermost narrower, acuminate; corymb loosely panicled; heads campanulate, radiate, very many-fl.; invol. scales shining, silvery-white or rosy, lanceolate, acuminate, much longer than the disc; achenes glandular. Stem 1–2 feet high, more woolly and branching than H. elegantissimum, with shorter and broader radical leaves and more lanceolate invol. scales. Invol. mostly rosy-purple externally.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common near Natal, from the sea level (Drege!) to 2–3000 feet, Plant, Gueinzius, Grant, Sutherland, Gerr. & M'K. No. 267, &c. Orange Free State, T. Cooper, 1121. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.)

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