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Helichrysum abietinum
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Entrance to Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park
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Entrance to Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park
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Entrance to Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park
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Entrance to Zovo Chipolo Trail, Nyika National Park
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much-branched small shrub, usually less than 2 m high, rarely taller. Branches erect, densely leafy towards the top, scarred below with old leaf bases. Leaves sessile, spreading, linear, up to 1.5 cm long, dark green above, silvery-white hairy beneath; margin rolled under. Capitula 3-5 mm wide, in small dense terminal heads, up to 2 cm wide; phyllaries 5-seriate, linear-ovate, 1.5-5 mm long, silvery-green with a brown apex. Florets 20-30, golden yellow. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
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| Habitat: | At margins of montane forest, secondary growth and montane scrubland, on banks of rivers and dams. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1800 - 2400 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
| National distribution: | N |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Sunday 30 September 2018 |
| Literature: |
Beentje, H.J. (ed.) (2002). Compositae (Part 2) Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 417. 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. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 31. Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 47 - 48. |
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