Berzelia squarrosa Sond.

Species

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Characteristics

A shrub with greyish or yellowish branches; branchlets often verticillate. Leaves flat or subcanaliculate above, keeled beneath, 1/2-1 inch long, about 3/4 line wide. Heads globose, 4-6 lines in diameter; peduncle 5-6 lines, in fruit often an inch long. Receptacle hairy. Calyx 5-dentate, never 10-dentate as described by Reichenbach, the teeth blunt, unequal, 3 are longer and gibbous. Petals oblong, spathulate. Anthers ovate, cells diverging at the base. Style simple. Fruit about 1 line long.
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Densely leafy shrub to 1.5 m, coppicing from a woody caudex. Leaves spreading, linear-oblanceolate, furrowed beneath in lower half. Flowers crowded in small heads arranged in short racemes at branch tips and aggregated in loose corymbs, white.
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Images

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Distribution

Berzelia squarrosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:126331-1
WFO ID wfo-0000564580
COL ID 5WK83
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Synonyms

Berzelia squarrosa Brunia lanuginosa Brunia squarrosa Brunia sericea Brunia speciosa Berzelia superba Brunia ericoides Brunia plumosa