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Status: | Native |
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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. |
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Derivation of specific name: | coriaceum: leathery, thick-leaved |
Habitat: | In open grassland. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe to Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | C,E |
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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 for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms.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. |
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