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Helichrysum pandurifolium [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
Helichrysum pandurifolium [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
Gnaphalium auriculatum Thunb., Prodr. 151 (1800), Fl. Cap. 657 (1823), non Lam. 1788. Helichrysum auriculatum Less., Syn. Comp. 311 (1832); DC, Prodr. 6: 209 (1838); Harv. in F.C. 3: 253 (1865) excl. var. panduratum Harv.; Moeser in Bot. Jb. 44: 311 (1910); Levyns in Adamson & Salter, Fl. Cape Penins. 785 (1950). Type: Cape, Table Mountain, Thunberg (sheet 19103, UPS, nolo.!). H. auriculatum var. oblongifolium DC, Prodr. 6: 209 (1838). Type: Cape, Table Mtn, Drege 295 (G-DC, nolo.!; BM, iso.!).
Information
A loosely branched, soft-wooded shrub, branches long, slender, thinly grey-woolly, leafy becoming pedunculoid and distantly bracteate below the inflorescence. Leaves mostly 8-16 x 8-10 mm, orbicular to broadly ovate abruptly narrowed to a broad petiole-like ear-clasping base, marÂgins markedly crisped-undulate, both surÂfaces grey-woolly. Heads homogamous, broadly campanulate, c. 5—8 x 6—10 mm (—14 mm when fully radiating), few to many in loose terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in c. 6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, outer sometimes palest brown, inner exceeding the flowers, backs loosely woolly above stereome, radiating, tips acute or subacute, somewhat crisped, opaque milk-white, sometimes suffused with rose. Receptacle with fimbrils exceedÂing ovaries. Flowers 12—39, yellow. Achenes 0,75 mm, barrel-shaped, glabrous. Pappus bristless many, scabrid, about equalling corolla, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Fig. 40: 3.
Habitat
Can be confused with both H. patulum (below) and H. petiolare (no. 132) but distinguished by its more pointed involucral bracts.
Use
130. Helichrysum pandurifolium Schrank in Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Munch. 8: 169 (1824). Type: Cape of Good Hope, Brehm s.n. (M, nolo.!).
Range
Ranges from the Cape Peninsula, Bainskloof and Waboom's River through the coastal districts to the Tsitsikama and Kouga Mountains, on hill and mountain slopes in sandy or rocky places, from near sea level to c. 1 500 m. Flowers between September and January, but mainly from October to December. Map 135.
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
Helichrysum pandurifolium [family ASTERACEAE]
Common names
Gnaphalium auriculatum Thunb., Prodr. 151 (1800), Fl. Cap. 657 (1823), non Lam. 1788. Helichrysum auriculatum Less., Syn. Comp. 311 (1832); DC, Prodr. 6: 209 (1838); Harv. in F.C. 3: 253 (1865) excl. var. panduratum Harv.; Moeser in Bot. Jb. 44: 311 (1910); Levyns in Adamson & Salter, Fl. Cape Penins. 785 (1950). Type: Cape, Table Mountain, Thunberg (sheet 19103, UPS, nolo.!). H. auriculatum var. oblongifolium DC, Prodr. 6: 209 (1838). Type: Cape, Table Mtn, Drege 295 (G-DC, nolo.!; BM, iso.!).
Information
A loosely branched, soft-wooded shrub, branches long, slender, thinly grey-woolly, leafy becoming pedunculoid and distantly bracteate below the inflorescence. Leaves mostly 8-16 x 8-10 mm, orbicular to broadly ovate abruptly narrowed to a broad petiole-like ear-clasping base, marÂgins markedly crisped-undulate, both surÂfaces grey-woolly. Heads homogamous, broadly campanulate, c. 5—8 x 6—10 mm (—14 mm when fully radiating), few to many in loose terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in c. 6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, outer sometimes palest brown, inner exceeding the flowers, backs loosely woolly above stereome, radiating, tips acute or subacute, somewhat crisped, opaque milk-white, sometimes suffused with rose. Receptacle with fimbrils exceedÂing ovaries. Flowers 12—39, yellow. Achenes 0,75 mm, barrel-shaped, glabrous. Pappus bristless many, scabrid, about equalling corolla, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Fig. 40: 3.
Habitat
Can be confused with both H. patulum (below) and H. petiolare (no. 132) but distinguished by its more pointed involucral bracts.
Use
130. Helichrysum pandurifolium Schrank in Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Munch. 8: 169 (1824). Type: Cape of Good Hope, Brehm s.n. (M, nolo.!).
Range
Ranges from the Cape Peninsula, Bainskloof and Waboom's River through the coastal districts to the Tsitsikama and Kouga Mountains, on hill and mountain slopes in sandy or rocky places, from near sea level to c. 1 500 m. Flowers between September and January, but mainly from October to December. Map 135.
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