Entry for HELICHRYSUM paronychioides 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 paronychioidesDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 171
Information
“stem shrubby, procumbent, much-branched, twigs leafy to the very summit; leaves sessile, linear, with sub-revolute margins, sub-acute, glabrous (as are the branches); heads solitary, terminal on the branches and twigs, 12-fl.; inv.-scales nearly all scarious, lengthened into a lanceolate, subacuminate limb.” DC. l. c. “Remarkable for its glabrous foliage, but with fl.-heads very similar to the preceding. Leaves 2 lines long.” DC.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Regions beyond the Gariep, Burchell, Cat. No. 2234.
