Ursinia montana(DC.) Prassler [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Sphenogyne natalensisSch.Bip. [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
Sphenogyne natalensis
Ursinia montana
Ursinia brevicaulis
Ursinia tenuiloba
Sphenogyne unrecorded
Ursinia natalensis
Ursinia apiculata
Flora
Entry for URSINIA montana 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
URSINIA montanaDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 688
Information
shrubby, ascending, depressed, scarcely branched, the short stem and branches pubescent; lvs. densely crowded, pinnati-partite, pubescent, becoming glabrate, the lobes thickish, terete, “the lowest very minute, and acute” (DC.), the upper linear or bifid, bluntly mucronulate; pedunc. naked, elongate; outer invol. scales glabrous, ovate-oblong, obtuse, dark-edged and membrane-tipped; rays small, discoloured; paleæ truncate. I have only seen a small, imperfect specimen. The leaves are scarcely uncial, pinnated above the middle, the lowest lobes (above described) not visible; several of the upper lobes bifid.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On the Witbergen, 5–8000 ft., Drege! (Herb. Hook.)
