Petalacte canescensde Candolle [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by DC., 1838
Related name
Langebergia canescens
Gnaphalium unrecorded
Petalacte canescens
Flora
Entry for PETALACTE canescens DC. [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
PETALACTE canescensDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 267
Information
leaves obovate-oblong, thinnish, on both sides albo-tomentose, tipped with a brown mucro; outer inv. scales broad-based, loosely woolly, with brown, ovate, glabrous tips; inner with linear-oblong, white tips; pappus-bristles thickened towards the summit, serrulate. A straggling, or decumbent, slender suffrutex, much less robust and woolly than P. coronata. Leaves 1/2 inch long, 2–3 lines wide, flexible. Heads in a simple, few-headed corymb, subsessile. Outer inv. scales deep brown, inner with snow-white tips.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Burchell, 7310. Mts. round Swellendam, E. & Z.! Drege! Zey.! 2906. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd., Cap.)
