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Hirpicium gazanioides
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Name
Identification
Hirpicium gazanioides (Harv.) Roessler [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Berkheyopsis gorterioides Hutchinson [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Hutchinson, J., Berkheyopsis pechuelii (Kuntze) O.Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Roessler, H., Berkheyopsis pechuelii (Kuntze) O.Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Hutchinson, J., Berkheya gorterioides Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Hutchinson, J.,
Related name
- Berkheya gorterioides
- Berkheyopsis pechuelii
- Hirpicium gazanioides
- Berkheyopsis gorterioides
Flora
Entry for Hirpicium gazanioides Harv. Roessler [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 6, Part 1, (1992) Author: G. V. Pope
Names
Hirpicium gazanioides Harv. Roessler [family COMPOSITAE], in Mitt. Bot. Staatss. Münch.3: 345 (1959). —Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 139: 102 (1967). —Roessler in Kirkia 10: 90 (1975). —Barnes & Turton, List Fl. Pl. Botswana at Nat. Mus., Sebele & Univ. Botswana: 34 (1986). Type from Namibia.
Berkheya gazanioides Harv. [family COMPOSITAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 3: 508 (1865). Type as above.
Gazania pechuelii Kuntze [family COMPOSITAE], in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin 4: 267 (1886). Type from Namibia.
Berkheya pechuelii Kuntze O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 10: 281 (1888). Type as for Gazania pechuelii.
Crocodilodes gazaniodes Harv. Kuntze [family COMPOSITAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 332 (1891). Type as for Hirpicium gazanioides.
Berkheyopsis pechuelii Kuntze O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot. 10: 181 (1892); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV, 5: 311 (1892). Type as for Gazania pechuelii.
Berkheyopsis pechuelii var. glabrescens Thell. [family COMPOSITAE], in Viert. Nat. Ges. Zürich 61: 460 (1916). Type from Namibia.
Information
An erect annual herb, 5–40 cm. tall, branched from near the base. Branches leafy, hispid, beset with scattered 1–3 mm. long patent whitish bristles. Leaves 2–7.5 x 0.4–1.5 cm., elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, tapering into a petiole-like base to c. 2 cm. long, entire or sometimes lobed, apex subobtuse mucronulate, margins ± revolute; upper surface scabrid-hispid, densely beset with conical whitish spinules which grade into scattered conical-based spine-like bristles up to 4 mm. long, the latter usually most numerous towards the leaf base; lower surface whitish or greyish lanate-tomentose except for the mid-nerve. Capitula terminal on branches, sessile and subtended by 3-many leaves which usually exceed the involucre in length. Involucres 15–30 mm. in diam., the connate part broadly obconic to hemispheric, mostly glabrous; outer phyllaries with free portions 10–20 x 0.5 mm., linear, bristle-Upped, pectinately ciliate on the margins with 10–20 or more bristles 2–3 mm. long on each side; innermost phyllaries with free portions 6–10 x 1–3 mm., narrowly triangular, acute to tapering acuminate, barbellate on the margins, membranous with a narrow dark-purple central part and broad margins. Receptacle shallowly alveolate. Rays yellow, 20–25 mm. long, linear-elliptic. Disk-floret corollas yellow, c. 8 mm. long, deeply lobed, thinly araneose outside especially on lobes; achenes 4–6 mm. long, narrowly obconic, 10–12-ribbed, glandular, densely long-sericeous; pappus scales 2-seriate, brownish hyaline, the outer ones 5–7 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate, overlapping, the inner ones 2.5–3 mm. long, oblong-ovate, stipitate.
Habitat
Semi desert, usually with short grasses in dried-up pans, on sandy or rocky soil.
Distribution
Botswana SW c. 35 km. S. of Takatshwane Pan, 21.ii.1960, Wild 5106 (K; LD; M; MO; PRE; SRGH).Botswana N perhaps collected at Tioge River N. of Lake Ngami, 1855, Wahlberg (S).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
South Africa (Cape Province)