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Pentzia globosa

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Name

Identification
Pentzia globosa Less. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pentzia globosa

Flora

Entry for PENTZIA globosa Less. [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
PENTZIA globosa Less. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. 266;—DC. l. c. 137.
Information
unarmed, shrubby, rigid, divaricately much branched; twigs thinly canescent, glabrate upwards; leaves sessile, pinnati-partite from the base or near it, the lobes in 3–4 pairs, short, linear, obtuse (or mucronate), sub-glabrous; heads terminal, solitary; inv. scales glabrous, lanceolate, taper-pointed, the inner minutely membrane tipped; pappus unequal-sided, toothed. Similar to P. virgata, but readily known by the leaves being pinnatisect from the base, or very generally so, and especially by the narrow, long-pointed invol. scales. The leaf-lobes are sometimes very short, under 1 line long. Heads 2–4 lines wide, convex.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Lichtenstein. Winterveld, near Groot Tafelberg, and betw. Zilver-fontein and Kaus. Drege. Gamke River, Zuureberg and Vat Rivier, Burke! Zey.! 850, 851, 853. Roggevelt, A. Wyley! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.)

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