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Sphenogyne discolor

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Name

Identification
Ursinia discolor (Less.) N.E.Br. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Sphenogyne discolor Less. [family COMPOSITAE ] Sphenogyne brevifolia DC. [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Ursinia discolor
  • Sphenogyne discolor
  • Sphenogyne brevifolia

Flora

Entry for SPHENOGYNE discolor 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
SPHENOGYNE discolor Less. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Syn. 243;—DC. l. c. 685.
SPHENOGYNE brevifolia DC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c.
Arctotis dentata Thunb. [family COMPOSITAE], ! non L.
SPHENOGYNE pilifera DC. γ. sub-canescens [family COMPOSITAE], ! in Hb. Drege, Prodr. 5, p. 688.
Information
suffruticose, diffusely branched, thinly cobwebby, becoming glabrescent; leaves (small) pinnati-partite, glaucous, the lobes in 2–3 pairs mucronate, lowest lobes very short (or none), upper longer; some leaves simply trifid; pedunc. elongate, often with a few linear, entire, appressed leaves at base; heads small; outer inv.-scales oval-oblong, somewhat membrane-edged and tipped, obtuse; rays coppery beneath; paleæ truncate. A diffuse or divaricate, much-branched half-shrub, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, all the younger parts covered with prostrate, deciduous, cobwebby hairs. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 inch long, the upper ones often only 3-fid, the lobes often hook-pointed. Heads 4–5 lines diam., the inv.-scales reddish-brown, with scabrous spots under the membranous tip, and a very narrow membr.-edge. Rays twice as long as the invol.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Thunb.! Uitenhage and Caledon, Ecklon! Swellendam, Dr. Pappe! Drege! Zey.! 2795. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)

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