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Osteospermum pterospermum

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Identification
Osteospermum pterospermum E. Mey. ex DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Osteospermum spinosum L. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Osteospermum spinosum
  • Osteospermum rigidum
  • Osteospermum pterospermum

Flora

Entry for OSTEOSPERMUM pterospermum E. Mey. [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
OSTEOSPERMUM pterospermum E. Mey. [family COMPOSITAE], !;—DC. l. c. 460.
Information
shrubby, divaricately much-branched, spiniferous, more or less viscoso-pubescent and scabrous; leaves narrow, either subentire, sharply toothed, or inciso-pinnatifid, the lobes on each side 2–6, long or short, or obsolete, acute; inv. sc. dorsally gland-scabrid, lanceolate, acute; achenes dimorphous, some smoothish and broadly 3-winged, some (in the same head!) wingless, muricated. Very like O. spinosum, but with different achenes. I find two kinds of achenes (as above described) on Ecklon's specimens (Hb. Sd.) Our var. β. in its extreme state looks different, being nearly leafless and very thorny, with very short and small inv. scales; but Zeyher's 1010, also from Hex Riv., is intermediate with the common form.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Stellenbosch and the Paarl, Drege! Worcester and Tulbagh, Ecklon! β. Simonsbay, Stell., Drege! Hex River, Burke! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.)

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