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Bolandia pedunculosa (Dc.) Cron

Species

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Characteristics

Tufted, perennial herb, 0.1-0.3 m high. Leaves ovate to elliptic to obovate, or lyrate pinnatifid, lobed, usually with 1 or 2 pairs of lateral pinnae, cobwebby, usually glabrescent above, white-tomentose or cobwebby below. Capitula solitary on long cobwebby-glabrescent, bracteate peduncles; involucre ecalyculate; bracts 8-14, cobwebby to tomentose, glabrescent. Ray florets 8-11. Disc florets 35-55. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Cypselae fusiform, black with short, white, mucilaginous, duplex hairs; ray cypselae triquetrous, slightly compressed, with prominent median rib on inner surface, inner surface glabrous; disc cypselae tetraquetrous, hairs on all sides.
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Tufted subshrub, up to 300 mm tall, thinly to densely white-woolly. Leaves basal, petiolate, blade ovate to lanceolate, incised to pinnatifid, 10-40(-70) mm long. Flowerheads solitary on bracteate peduncles, radiate (rarely discoid), yellow, ± 15 mm diam.; involucre narrowly campanulate, bracts 10-15.
Tufted, white-woolly perennial to 50 cm. Leaves petiolate, deltoid-lanceolate, crenate to pinnatisect. Flower heads radiate, solitary on bracteate peduncles, yellow.
Life form perennial
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Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.3
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Soil texture 7-8
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Distribution

Bolandia pedunculosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60443084-2
WFO ID wfo-0000094375
COL ID 68MZL
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Synonyms

Bolandia pedunculosa Cineraria pedunculosa
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