Entry for PLEIOTAXIS pulcherrima Steetz [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
PLEIOTAXIS pulcherrimaSteetz [family COMPOSITAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. p. 500, t. 51.
Information
An erect simple herb, somewhat woody at the base, more than a foot high; stems simple, terete, striate, silky-tomentose, whitish, leafy to the top. Leaves elliptical, narrowed towards both ends, serrulate or entire, silky-tomentose and hoary beneath, 4–5 1/2 by 1 1/4–1 1/2 in.; petiole about 1/2 in., sheathing. Capitula solitary, terminal, 1 1/2 by 3/4 in.; peduncle short, clothed with long stiffish ascending hairs. Involucral bracts glabrous, ovate, obtuse, the inner ones gradually longer, the outer ones continued down the short peduncle. Corollas finely purple. Achenes hairy, 1/3 in. long.
