Entry for OTHONNA cacalioides Linn. f. [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
OTHONNA cacalioidesLinn. f. [family COMPOSITAE], Suppl. 388;—Th.! Cap. 719. DC. l. c. 479.
Information
shrubby-carnose, glabrous, branching; branches very thick and fleshy, with white-woolly cicatrices; leaves tufted, obovate, tapering at base, very obtuse, thickish coriaceous, faintly 3-nerved, entire or minutely denticulate, the margin thickened and subreflexed; peduncle twice as long as the leaves, one-headed; inv. lobes 5, very broad; rays?; achenes? Stem and branches 3/4 in. diameter, with a pale-brown or fulvous, glossy bark. Leaves 3/4 in. long, 4–5 lines wide. Pedunc. 1 1/2 in. long. Heads small, few-flowered.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Bockland'sberg, Thunberg! (Herb. Th.)
