Amphiglossa callunoides Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Amphiglossa

Characteristics

Stoloniferous, woody, multi-stemmed, blue-grey shrub, up to 0.5 m high. Branches with many brachyblasts. Leaves sessile, appressed, narrowly triangular, ericoid, upper surface woolly, apex shortly mucronate, 10 x 2 mm. Capitula radiate, heterogamous, 7-8 x 2-3 mm, 8-10-flowered with same number of ray and disk florets; single capitulum terminally borne on brachyblasts. Bilabiate/pseudobilabiate florets white, female, 4 or 5; lamina ± 1.5 x 0.5 mm, 3-lobed, tube 4.5-5.0 mm long. Disc florets white, bisexual, 5-lobed, 5.0-5.5 mm long. Flowering time Jan.-Apr. Pappus of 18-23 bristles, ± 5 mm long, plumose in upper part.
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Sprawling, thinly cobwebby shrublet to 50 cm with spur shoots, layering from branch tips. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, adpressed. Flower heads radiate, small, solitary on tips of spur shoots, rays 4 or 5, white, inner bracts mucronate.
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Amphiglossa callunoides world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:176249-1
WFO ID wfo-0000137636
COL ID D2WP
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Synonyms

Amphiglossa callunoides