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Gnaphalium confine [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
Gnaphalium confine [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
G. drakensbergense Markotter in Ann. Univ. Stellenbosch 8A, 1: 45 (1930); Hilliard, Compositae in Natal 130 (1977). Lectotype: Orange Free State, Koolhoek,c.6 000ft,Oct. 71907, 77zodeinSTE3009! G. declinatum sensu Merxm., F.S.W.A. 139: 83 (1967) quoad spec. Merxmuller & Giess 2275b, non L. f.
Information
Tufted grey-woolly annual herb, stems decumbent or erect, up to c. 200 mm long, simple or sparingly branched, leafy. Leaves erect or spreading, mostly 8—30 x 2—4 mm, generally oblanceolate, the smaller ones linear-oblong, apex obtuse to subacute, mucronate. Heads c. 3 x 3—4 mm, few to several clustered at the branch tips sur­rounded by leaves, sometimes several clusters on short leafy branches corymbose-ly arranged. Involucral bracts in 4 series, outer pale brown, woolly outside, tips of inner acute or subacute, exceeding the flowers, opaque, dirty white or palest buff, sometimes tinged purple above the stere-ome. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 143-244, 139-240 ("female"), 4-11 ("bisexual"), in the proportion 17-40 (-60) : 1. Achenes 0,5 mm long with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus on ("female") flowers scabrid, on ("bisexual") flowers with subplumose tips. Fig. 4:4.
Habitat
Readily confused with G. polycaulon (no. 13) but distinguished by the involucral bracts with opaque, not translucent, tips, and dimorphic pappus. The name G. micranthum Thunb. has frequently been misapplied to this species, but it belongs to Vellereophyton dealbatum (Thunb.) Hilliard & Burtt.
Use
11. Gnaphalium confine Harv. in F.C. 3: 263 (1865); Hilliard in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 288 (1981). Type: Cape of Good Hope, Linde, Zeyher (S, nolo.!).
Range
Widely distributed from S.W.A./Namibia through the N.Cape to the S. and SE. Transvaal, Orange Free State, Lesotho, Natal, Transkei, E. and central Cape. Grows in damp places such as river- or streambankr., ditches, seepage lines, even the drip line of Cave Sandstone overhangs. Can behave as a weed. Flowering recorded in every month, but mainly September to November. Map 15.

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
Gnaphalium confine [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
G. drakensbergense Markotter in Ann. Univ. Stellenbosch 8A, 1: 45 (1930); Hilliard, Compositae in Natal 130 (1977). Lectotype: Orange Free State, Koolhoek,c.6 000ft,Oct. 71907, 77zodeinSTE3009! G. declinatum sensu Merxm., F.S.W.A. 139: 83 (1967) quoad spec. Merxmuller & Giess 2275b, non L. f.
Information
Tufted grey-woolly annual herb, stems decumbent or erect, up to c. 200 mm long, simple or sparingly branched, leafy. Leaves erect or spreading, mostly 8—30 x 2—4 mm, generally oblanceolate, the smaller ones linear-oblong, apex obtuse to subacute, mucronate. Heads c. 3 x 3—4 mm, few to several clustered at the branch tips sur­rounded by leaves, sometimes several clusters on short leafy branches corymbose-ly arranged. Involucral bracts in 4 series, outer pale brown, woolly outside, tips of inner acute or subacute, exceeding the flowers, opaque, dirty white or palest buff, sometimes tinged purple above the stere-ome. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 143-244, 139-240 ("female"), 4-11 ("bisexual"), in the proportion 17-40 (-60) : 1. Achenes 0,5 mm long with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus on ("female") flowers scabrid, on ("bisexual") flowers with subplumose tips. Fig. 4:4.
Habitat
Readily confused with G. polycaulon (no. 13) but distinguished by the involucral bracts with opaque, not translucent, tips, and dimorphic pappus. The name G. micranthum Thunb. has frequently been misapplied to this species, but it belongs to Vellereophyton dealbatum (Thunb.) Hilliard & Burtt.
Use
11. Gnaphalium confine Harv. in F.C. 3: 263 (1865); Hilliard in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 288 (1981). Type: Cape of Good Hope, Linde, Zeyher (S, nolo.!).
Range
Widely distributed from S.W.A./Namibia through the N.Cape to the S. and SE. Transvaal, Orange Free State, Lesotho, Natal, Transkei, E. and central Cape. Grows in damp places such as river- or streambankr., ditches, seepage lines, even the drip line of Cave Sandstone overhangs. Can behave as a weed. Flowering recorded in every month, but mainly September to November. Map 15.
Gnaphalium confine [family ASTERACEAE]
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