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Lasiopogon muscoides [family ASTERACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Lasiopogon muscoides [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
Gnaphalium muscoides Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2: 267 t. 231 (1799). J Lasiopogon lanatum Cass, in Bull. Soc. philom. 1818: 75 (1818), nom. illegit.
Information
Annual herb forming small woolly mats up to 10—150 mm across, frequently much smaller, stems few to many from the crown, filiform, simple or branched, prostrate or decumbent, very loosely greyish-white woolly, distantly leafy then closely so under the heads. Leaves mostly 3—7 x 1—1,5 mm, smallest under the heads, up to 10 x 1,5 at the root, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, base much narrowed, both surfaces loosely greyish-white woolly. Heads hetero-gamous, campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, each closely surrounded by leaves then massed in woolly glomerules c. 3—15 mm across at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, pelluÂcid, tips very obtuse, pale straw-coloured, sometimes subopaque, whole involucre rotate when achenes shed. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 36—59, 31-53 ("female"), 2-6 ("bisexual"), whitish, tips sometimes reddish, ("female") 6—25 times as many as ("bisexual"). Achenes 0,75 mm long, with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles dehcately plumose from the base, terminating in a pair of pointed cilia, a few small patent cilia at base. Fig. 2:4.
Use
1. Lasiopogon muscoides (Desf.) DC, Prodr. 6:246 (1838); Harv. in F.C. 3: 265 (1865); B. Nord. in Jl S. Afr. Bot. 30: 60 (1964); Merxm., F.S.W.A. 139: 108 (1967); Holub in Tutin et al., Fl. Europ. 4: 131 (1976). Type: Tunisia, herb. Fl. Atlant. (P, nolo.!). "
Range
Widely distributed from about 23°S in South West Africa/Namibia and Botswana through the semi-desert areas of the Cape as far south as the Ceres-Calvinia Karoo and the Great Karoo and east to the southern O.F.S.. and Komgha. Also in SE. and Central Spain, N. Africa and the Saharo-Sindian region to Pakistan and NW. India. Favours bare sandy or gravelly places such as watercourses, the edges of pans, even railway tracks and old fields, probably where there is seasonal water.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Lasiopogon muscoides [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
Gnaphalium muscoides Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2: 267 t. 231 (1799). J Lasiopogon lanatum Cass, in Bull. Soc. philom. 1818: 75 (1818), nom. illegit.
Information
Annual herb forming small woolly mats up to 10—150 mm across, frequently much smaller, stems few to many from the crown, filiform, simple or branched, prostrate or decumbent, very loosely greyish-white woolly, distantly leafy then closely so under the heads. Leaves mostly 3—7 x 1—1,5 mm, smallest under the heads, up to 10 x 1,5 at the root, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, base much narrowed, both surfaces loosely greyish-white woolly. Heads hetero-gamous, campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, each closely surrounded by leaves then massed in woolly glomerules c. 3—15 mm across at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, pelluÂcid, tips very obtuse, pale straw-coloured, sometimes subopaque, whole involucre rotate when achenes shed. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 36—59, 31-53 ("female"), 2-6 ("bisexual"), whitish, tips sometimes reddish, ("female") 6—25 times as many as ("bisexual"). Achenes 0,75 mm long, with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles dehcately plumose from the base, terminating in a pair of pointed cilia, a few small patent cilia at base. Fig. 2:4.
Use
1. Lasiopogon muscoides (Desf.) DC, Prodr. 6:246 (1838); Harv. in F.C. 3: 265 (1865); B. Nord. in Jl S. Afr. Bot. 30: 60 (1964); Merxm., F.S.W.A. 139: 108 (1967); Holub in Tutin et al., Fl. Europ. 4: 131 (1976). Type: Tunisia, herb. Fl. Atlant. (P, nolo.!). "
Range
Widely distributed from about 23°S in South West Africa/Namibia and Botswana through the semi-desert areas of the Cape as far south as the Ceres-Calvinia Karoo and the Great Karoo and east to the southern O.F.S.. and Komgha. Also in SE. and Central Spain, N. Africa and the Saharo-Sindian region to Pakistan and NW. India. Favours bare sandy or gravelly places such as watercourses, the edges of pans, even railway tracks and old fields, probably where there is seasonal water.
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