Helichrysum coriaceum
Selected images: Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record View all images (2)
Photo: Bart Wursten
SRGH
Photo: Bart Wursten
SRGH
Detailed records: Display species records QDS maps by: Google Maps Point records by Google Maps
Species details: Click on each item to see an explanation of that item (Note: opens a new window)
| Synonyms: | |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial, up to 75 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Stems simple with leaves mostly near the base. Leaves more or less elliptic, up to 27 × 2.5 cm, leathery, clasping at the base, nearly hairless when mature, covered in white silky hairs below, prominently 3-5-veined below. Capitula in corymbose clusters forming a large spreading head. Involucral bracts c. 6-seriate, up to 3.5 mm long, oblong, straw-coloured. Florets yellow. |
| Type location: |
Syntypes from South Africa |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | coriaceum: leathery, thick-leaved |
| Habitat: | In open grassland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe to Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
| FZ divisions: | C,E |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 4 August 2016 |
| Literature: |
Hilliard, O.M. (1983). Asteraceae, Inuleae, Gnaphaliinae Flora of Southern Africa 33-7-2 Pages 232 - 233. 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. Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 30 - 31. |
Other sources of information about Helichrysum coriaceum:
Our websites:
Flora of Malawi: Helichrysum coriaceumExternal websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Helichrysum coriaceumAfrican Plant Database: Helichrysum coriaceum
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Helichrysum coriaceum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Helichrysum coriaceum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Helichrysum coriaceum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Helichrysum coriaceum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Helichrysum coriaceum
JSTOR Plant Science: Helichrysum coriaceum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Helichrysum coriaceum
Plants of the World Online: Helichrysum coriaceum
Tropicos: Helichrysum coriaceum
Wikipedia: Helichrysum coriaceum