Artemisiopsis villosa (O. Hoffm.) Schweick.

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Farm Vergenoeg 402 District Okahandja, Namibia

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Synonyms:	Amphidoxa villosa O. Hoffm.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Bushy aromatic, glandular, annual herb to 35 cm tall, but often much less. Leaves sessile, linear, strap-shaped or narrowly sub-spathulate, up to 17 × 3 mm, 1-nerved. Capitula in axils of leaves, borne in crowded clusters and mixed with a mass of woolly-villous hairs. Involucres spherical, 2-3 mm in diameter. Phyllaries unequal in two rows; apex acuminate; margins ciliate. Outer florets female disk florets bisexual. Achenes narrowly turbinate.
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Derivation of specific name:	villosa: covered with long, soft, weak hairs, villous.
Habitat:	In dry stream beds, vleis or pans, in sandy or black cotton soils.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Content last updated:	Sunday 13 September 2020
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 23. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 31. Wild, H. (1980). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area, 12. Inuleae (continued). Kirkia 12(1) Pages 69 - 70.

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