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Athanasia minuta (L.F.) Källersjö

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Athanasia

Characteristics

Erect or prostrate, shrub or dwarf shrub, 0.15-0.45 m high; diffusely branched, upper branches sometimes transformed into leafless spines, glabrous. Leaves opposite, basally connate, distant along stems, linear, entire or rarely with a few, short, marginal lobes, acute. Capitula discoid, solitary, sessile; involucre urceolate; bracts imbricate, ovate, obtuse. Receptacle epaleate. Disc florets tubular, with minute, scattered glands, yellow. Flowering time Aug.-Nov. Pappus absent. Cypselae somewhat flattened, with 2 lateral ribs and a ventral rib, with some hairs around edges.
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Divaricately branched, twiggy shrublet, up to 0.5 m tall, often thorny. Leaves scattered or clustered on short shoots, opposite and fused into a sheath at base, linear, 5-30 mm long, rarely shortly lobed. Flowerheads solitary and sessile, scattered or terminal on short shoots, urn-shaped, discoid, epaleate, florets 18-35, yellow, without basal ring of glandular hairs. Cypselas basally tufted with hairs.
Glabrous, sprawling shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves opposite, joined below, linear. Flower heads discoid, solitary and sessile at branch tips and on short shoots, yellow, epaleate, florets glandular.
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.33 - 0.48
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Usage

Uses animal food medicinal poison
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Distribution

Athanasia minuta world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:962627-1
WFO ID wfo-0000115527
COL ID J9SD
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Synonyms

Athanasia minuta Pteronia geigerioides Stilpnophyton axillare Asaemia minuta subsp. minuta

Lower taxons

Athanasia minuta subsp. inermis Athanasia minuta subsp. minuta
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