Entry for OTHONNA Natalensis Sch. Bip. [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 NatalensisSch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Bot. Zeit. XXVII. p. 771;—Walp. Rep. 6, p. 275.
Information
herbaceous, glabrous; root tuberous, prolonged upwards into a thick root-stock, woolly at the crown; leaves from the crown, many, rosulate, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, much attenuated to the base, with woolly axils, quite entire, coriaceous, midribbed, nerveless, margined; stem scapelike, nude or with 1–2 bracts, once or twice forked or corymbose at summit; pedicels long; inv. sc. about 8, lanceolate, concrete at base; rays 8, yellow; achenes shortly pubescent; pappus rufo-fulvous. This has something the look of Senecio coronatus. Leaves 4–5 inches long, 1 1/2–2 in. wide, thickish, opaque. Pedunc. 6–12 inches high. Rays twice as long as the involucre.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Natal, Krauss! 442. British Caffraria, T. Cooper, 299. (Herb. D., Hk.)
