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Printzia pyrifolia

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Name

Identification
Printzia pyrifolia Less. [family ASTERACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for PRINTZIA pyrifolia Less. [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
PRINTZIA pyrifolia Less. [family COMPOSITAE], Syn. 108;—DC. l. c. 13.
Information
branches tomentulose, in age glabrate; leaves shortly petioled, ovate or subrotund, broad and subcordate at base, sharply many-toothed, glabrous and netted above, rigid. tomentose beneath; inv. sc. imbricate, in 5–6 rows, the outer shorter, all fringed with woolly hairs; rays elongate; pappus whitish. A shrub, 3–4 ft. high. Leaves varying much in size; in E. & Z. sp. 1 1/2 in. long, 1 inch wide; in Drege's about 1/2 inch long and wide, or less, in all very rigid. Fl. purple?
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Kaffirland, Krebs, E. & Z.! Witberg, Drege! Albany, T. Williamson! Basutuland, T. Cooper, 691. Tongaat R., Natal, Mrs. Saunders! (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.)

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