Edmondia pinifolia (Lam.) Hilliard

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Edmondia

Characteristics

Heads large, c. 30 mm long; involucral bracts white or pale to deep pink, the outermost pale to medium brown, and always descending on the peduncle and passing into scale-tipped leaves for 20-60 mm below the head; receptacle with fimbrils about half as long as the ovaries; achenes compressed, with broad semipellucid marginal wings and an incipient wing up each face, glabrous.
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Sparsely branched, thinly white-woolly shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves weakly dimorphic, linear and ascending below. Flower heads discoid, solitary on long peduncles bearing short, adpressed leaves, the uppermost becoming dry and papery, yellow, bracts papery, white to pink; cypselas flattened and winged.
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Images

Edmondia pinifolia unspecified picture

Distribution

Edmondia pinifolia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:908709-1
WFO ID wfo-0000024408
COL ID 38SWT
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Synonyms

Helipterum longibracteatum Helichrysum longebracteatum Xeranthemum pinifolium Helipterum humile Helichrysum squamosum Helichrysum humile Helichrysum pinifolium Edmondia pinifolia Helichrysum spectabile Aphelexis macrantha Xeranthemum humile Aphelexis humilis Aphelexis humilis Helipterum humile var. humile Aphelexis humilis var. humilis Helipterum humile var. pinifolium