Gutenbergia leiocarpa O. Hoffm.

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Synonyms:	Gutenbergia gossweileri S. Moore Gutenbergia tenuis S. Moore
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Status:	Native
Description:	Slender or bushy erect annual herb, up to 80 cm tall, or procumbent perennial with trailing stems to 1.2 m long. Leaves opposite, becoming alternate on the upper stem, sessile, linear-elliptic, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, up to 8 × 2 cm, sparsely, somewhat bristly hairy above, densely matted with silvery-white appressed T-shaped hairs below; margin entire. Capitula numerous, small, in cymose clusters. Involucral bracts numerous, green, bristle-tipped. Florets discoid, mauve to purple. Pappus 0.
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Habitat:	In mixed deciduous and miombo woodland, lake shores and river flood plains, often on sandy soils, sometimes as a weed of disturbed areas and roadsides.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,C,E
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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 25. also as Gutenbergia gossweileri Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 153 - 157. (?) Syn G. gossweileri (Includes a picture).

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