Berkheya carlinopsis Welw. ex O.Hoffm.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Berkheya

Characteristics

Leaves sessile, 3–6 cm. long, dentate to pinnatifid-dentate; lamina (excluding the teeth or lobes) 2–3(4) mm. wide and linear or 5–15 mm. wide and lanceolate; teeth 3–8 on each side, each tooth 2–6(10) mm. long, triangular or linear and extended in a tawny spine 2–3 mm. long; margins of teeth and sinuses entire or armed with smaller spines; upper surface smooth or somewhat scabrous, slightly to densely araneose-tomentose or glabrescent; lower surface whitish felted-tomentose.
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Phyllaries spreading, felted-tomentose outside, subglabrous or glabrous inside, 10–20 x 1–3 mm., linear-lanceolate, spiny-acuminate, ciliate-spinescent on the margins with spines 1–3 mm. long; the outermost phyllaries ± leaf-like with small spine-tipped teeth; inner phyllaries smaller and less spinescent-ciliate.
Capitula radiate, solitary and terminal on the branches, or subcorymbosely arranged, 2.5–5(+?) cm. in diam. including the rays.
Pappus scales 2-seriate, 1–1.5 mm. long, narrowly oblong, acute or subobtuse, denticulate towards the apex.
Achenes 1.5–3.5 mm. long, turbinate, 8–10-ribbed, strigose-sericeous, glandular-viscid at the apex.
Margins of the receptacular alveolae extended into straw-coloured bristles 1–2 mm. long.
Stems branched, whitish araneose-tomentose, or glabrescent, leafy.
A perennial herb or subshrub up to c. 1.5 m. tall.
Life form perennial
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Images

Berkheya carlinopsis unspecified picture

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:184526-1
WFO ID wfo-0000035966
COL ID LL75
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Synonyms

Berkheya carlinopsis Berkheya carlinopsis var. carlinopsis

Lower taxons

Berkheya carlinopsis subsp. sylvicola Berkheya carlinopsis subsp. magalismontana