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Status: | Native |
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Shrubby perennial herb, up to 1.3 m tall. Stems woody, densely hairy, with minute glands. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, c. 1.3 cm long, 3-veined from the base; densely hairy and glandular above, greyish tomentose below. Capitula in a many-headed corymbose inflorescence, up to 7 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts straw-coloured, c. 4-seriate, up to 3 mm long. Florets yellow. |
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Habitat: | In drier stony ground. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Cameroon, Angola and from Ethiopia to Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Also in the Comoro Islands. |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Thursday 4 August 2016 |
Literature: |
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 26. |
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