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Gazania lichtensteinii Less.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Gazania

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herb, 0.05-0.40 m high; short basal branches or elongated decum-bent/ascending branches. Leaves arranged uniformly on branches (or crowded into basal rosettes), obovate, 20-70 x 3-20 mm, apex obtuse, upper and lower surfaces finely grey-tomentose, upper sometimes glabrous. Capitula on peduncles 20-120 mm long; involucre cylindrical; all scales terminal, 2-seriate; outer involucral scales linear/trian-gulate, 1.5 x 1 mm, margins minutely ciliate; inner involucral scales ovate-triangulate, 4-7 x 2.5 mm, margins entire. Ligules yellow/orange, basal blotches/bicolour spots. Flowering time all year, rainfall dependent.
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Tufted to sprawling annual, sometimes up to 300 mm tall. Leaves simple to pinnatilobed, oblanceolate, serrate or toothed, white-felted below, glabrous to sparsely cobwebby above. Flowerheads radiate, yellow to orange; involucre campanulate, 3-8 mm wide, connate, glabrous to sometimes cobwebby, collared below.
Annual sometimes to 30 cm. Leaves oblanceolate, serrate or toothed, woolly beneath, glabrescent above, margins slightly revolute. Flower heads radiate, yellow, sometimes orange; involucre smooth, collared below, inner bracts acuminate.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.18 - 0.35
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 8 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 18
Germination luminosity dark
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Images

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Distribution

Gazania lichtensteinii world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:208697-1
WFO ID wfo-0000075698
COL ID 3FFZV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Gazania lichtensteinii Gazania araneosa Mussinia pusilla Meridiana lichtensteinii
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