Entry for OTHONNA parviflora Linn. [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 parvifloraLinn. [family COMPOSITAE], Mant. 89;—Th.! Cap. 720. DC. l. c. 476.
Senecio rigensLinn. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
suffruticose, erect or ascending, glabrous (or the axils woolly), subsimple; stem leafy below, pedunculoid and loosely panicled above; leaves very variable in shape, tapering much to the base, subdecurrent, sessile or subpetioled, coriaceous, thick, veinless or nearly so, cuneate-obovate, cuneate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, either entire or coarsely few-toothed toward the apex; pedicels long; inv. sc. 7–8, oblong, acute; achenes silky-villous. 2–2 1/2 f. high. Leaves 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. wide; in var. γ. 3–4 in. long, 4–5 lines wide, always opaque, thick, and drying dark. All the above forms grow together, and pass gradually one into the other.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common about Capetown and on the Cape Flats. Stellenbosch, Drakenstein, &c. E. & Z.! Drege! Uitenhage, Zey.! 3047. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)
