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Name

Identification
Staavia radiata (L.) Dahl [family BRUNIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for STAAVIA radiata Thunb. [family BRUNIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 309, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
STAAVIA radiata Thunb. [family BRUNIACEAE], l. c.;—Brogn. l. c. tab. 2, f. 2. Wendl. t. 82. E. & Z.! No. 1075. Herb. Un. itin. No. 767. Zey.! 726.
Phylica radiata Linn. [family RHAMNACEAE], spec. p. 283.
Brunia radiata L. [family BRUNIACEAE], Mant. p. 209. Pluk. Mant. t. 452, f. 7.
STAAVIA pinifolia Willd. [family BRUNIACEAE], ! l. c. p. 133, t. 3, f. 2.
Information
young branches and leaves pilose; leaves spreading or deflexed, linear-acute, slightly keeled, mucronate; heads of flowers corymbose; bracteas of involucre membranaceous, mucronate, arched, deflexed, white, a little longer than the flowers. Small shrub, 1–2 feet, branches 2–3-chotomous, virgate. Leaves petiolate, 2–3 lines long, a little canaliculate above. Heads the size of a large pea, sometimes smaller or larger. Interior leaflets of the involucre white, a little shorter than the heads.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape flats and on mountains near Capetown, Hottentottsholland, &c., very common. Vars. β. and γ. Cape flats and in Wupperthal and Drakensteenberge. (Herb. Thunb., Willd., Sond., &c.)

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