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Osteospermum spinosum

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Name

Identification
Osteospermum spinosum L. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Osteospermum spinosum L. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Dirk Onno Wijnands,
Related name
  • Osteospermum spinosum
  • Osteospermum rigidum
  • Osteospermum pterospermum

Flora

Entry for OSTEOSPERMUM spinosum 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
OSTEOSPERMUM spinosum Linn. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. 1308; non Jacq.;—Th.! Cap. 713. DC.! l. c. 459.
OSTEOSPERMUM spinescens Willd. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
shrubby, all parts viscoso-pubescent; branches and twigs divaricate, ending in hard spines; leaves linear-lanceolate, either entire or coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid, flat, nerveless or faintly one-nerved; fl. branches short, divaricate, one-headed; inv. sc. acuminate, membr. edged; rays about 8; disc-fl. hairy; achenes bluntly 3-cornered, minutely glandular. A strongly and disagreeably scented, thorny bush, much and intricately branched. Leaves 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 1–2 l. wide, very variable; the teeth or lobes, when present, spreading, mucronate. Pedunc. 1/2–1 1/2 in. long. Fully ripe achenes with convex, unwrinkled sides.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Round Capetown and in the Western Districts, common. Hassaquay's Kl., Zey.! 3064. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)

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