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| Status: | Native |
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A low-growing, suberect or decumbent perennial herb, up to c. 25 cm high or c. 50 cm. in diameter, with several greyish woolly stems growing from a woody taproot. Leaves spathulate, mostly 15–40 mm long, obscurely 3-veined from the base, greyish woolly on both surfaces but more densely so beneath; margins subserrate with callose-tipped teeth, often wavy. Capitula few to many, solitary and terminal on branches or very short shoots, sessile and axillary with several subtending leaves. Involucres mostly 15–20 mm long, spreading up to 30 mm wide. Bracts numerous, with narrow membranous margins, more or less sparsely woolly; outer bracts from c. 5 mm. long and spine-like; inner bracts linear-lanceolate, to c. 20 mm long. florets c. 8 mm long, funnel-shaped with long linear lobes, creamy-white; achenes narrowly turbinate, c. 3 mm long, c. 10-ribbed, long appressed-setose between the ribs; pappus 2-seriate, the outer of c. 10 slender barbellate setae 7–10 mm. long, the inner of 6–7 broadly membranous winged scale-like setae c. 7 mm. long. |
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| Habitat: | In grassland in sandy areas and on stony outcrops. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Northern Botsawana and Soutpansberg, area South Africa. |
| Botswana distribution: | N |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 41. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 32. van der Walt, R. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Limpopo Valley Retha van der Walt, Musina, South Africa Page 27. (Includes a picture). |
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