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Helichrysum brassii
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Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial or sometimes annual herb, up to 50 cm tall, with erect stems branching from the base or sometimes simple, mostly hairless, brownish or purplish but densely white woolly towards the base. Leaves along the stems, sessile and clasping the stems at the base, oblanceolate, up to 5 cm long, becoming smaller and more lanceolate towards the top of the stems, green above, often with some purplish pubescence, densely white-woolly beneath. Capitula terminal, up to 1.3 cm wide, solitary or in inflorescences of 2-5 capitula.Involucral bracts c. 7 seriate, yellow with outer bracts blackish-green-tipped. Florets yellow. |
| Type location: |
Mulanje, Malawi |
| Notes: | Three varieties have been described. Var. brassii is distinguished by the much-branched perennial habit with solitary capitula on long peduncles; var. aggregatum Brenan has inflorescences with 2-5 capitula and var. tenellum Brenan is an annual more slender herb with simple or branched stems and inflorescences with 2-5 capitula. |
| Derivation of specific name: | brassii: after Leonard John Brass (1900-1971), Australian/American botanist, botanical collector and explorer, associate curator of the Archbold Expedition collections with the American Museum of Natural History. |
| Habitat: | Montane Grassland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Only known from Malawi and possibly Mozambique. |
| National distribution: | N,S |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Wednesday 26 September 2018 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 95. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 53. Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 109 - 110. |
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