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Chrysocoma coma-aurea

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Identification
Chrysocoma coma-aurea L. [family ASTERACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CHRYSOCOMA Coma-aurea Linn. [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
CHRYSOCOMA Coma-aurea Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. 1178;—DC. l. c. p. 353. Pluk. Alm. t. 327, f. 2.
CHRYSOCOMA aurea Th. [family COMPOSITAE], Cap. p. 626.
CHRYSOCOMA patula Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], Th. Cap. l. c.
CHRYSOCOMA cernua Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], Thunb.! Cap. l. c. (ex pte.). Sieb. fl. Cap. n. 32.
Information
shrubby, glabrous or nearly so; leaves scattered, linear, subacute, spreading or recurved, quite entire; heads shortly pedunculate, 120–150 flowered. A much branched shrub, 1–1 1/2 feet high, the branches corymbose, fastigiate, curved, erect, glabrous, or the younger parts sub-pubescent. Leaves 7–10 lines long, 1/2-line wide, obtuse or sub-acute, squarrose. Flowering branches 3–6 inches long, sparsely leafy, the apex bare of leaves. Heads 5–7 lines long. The leaves are occasionally sparsely ciliate.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Western districts, common. (Herb. Th., Sd., Hk., &c.)

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