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Helichrysum citrispinum

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Identification
Gnaphalium spinosum (Sch.Bip) Sch.Bip [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Mesfin,T., Helichrysum spinosum Sch.Bip [family ASTERACEAE ] Helichrysum citrispinum Delile [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Helichrysum armatum
  • Helichrysum aberdaricum
  • Helichrysum spinosum
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  • Helichrysum gunnae
  • Helichrysum acanthophorum
  • Gnaphalium spinosum
  • Helichrysum newii
  • Helichrysum citrispinum
  • Helichrysum unrecorded
  • Helichrysum hoehnelii

Flora

Entry for HELICHRYSUM citrispinum Del. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
HELICHRYSUM citrispinum Del. [family COMPOSITAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. ii. vol. xx. p. 93.
HELICHRYSUM spinosum Schultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. Sect. ii. nn. 666, 1246
Gnaphalium spinosum Schultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. iii. p. 173 (1845).
Information
Fruticose; branches divaricate, terete, pale-tomentose, leafy and spinous above. Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or subacute, revolute, sessile, not narrowed at the base, often crowded in terminal tufts, incano-pubescent on both sides, about 1/3 in. long, upper often with axillary spines about 1/2 in. long. Capitula widely campanulate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, solitary at the ends of the short leafy branches. Scales of involucre pluriseriate, scarious, lanceolate, subobtuse, coriaceous at base, outer shorter. Receptacle foveolate; margins of pits with toothed margins. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Corolla-lobes nigro-punctate. Achenes shortly pubescent; hairs shining.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Roth! Ferret and Galinier! 11–13,000 ft. alt.
Notes
Gnaphalium crispatulum, Del. Fl. Ægypt. p. 123, t. 44, f. 3, an Egyptian species, is mentioned in Schultz Bip. and Aschers. Enum. p. 285, n. 2456, as occurring also in Nubia and Abyssinia. A specimen so named, belonging to the Berlin herbarium and seen by us, we regard as conspecific with Helichrysum citrispinum, Del.

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