Entry for VENIDIUM macrocephalum 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
VENIDIUM macrocephalumDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 495
Information
“annual; thinly sprinkled with jointed hairs; stem erect, branched, terete, striate; cauline leaves bluntly eared at base, half-clasping, pinnatifid, the lobes oblong, often sinuate; inv. scales nearly concrete at base into a disc, in many rows, hairy, the outer linear; achenes cross-ridged and tubercled.” DC. l. c. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Betw. Kaus and the Gariep, Drege. (Unknown to me.)