Gnaphalium limicola Hilliard

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Gnaphalium

Characteristics

Creeping, mat-forming perennial herb, stems thinly grey-woolly, rooting, leafy. Leaves 5-15 x 1-3 mm, oblong-spathulate or ungulate, apex obtuse, mucronate, base half-clasping, both surfaces silky grey-tomentose. Heads c. 4 x 3-4 mm, up to 4 on conspicuous peduncles borne well above the leaves. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, brown, woolly at base, tips of inner bracts oblong, c. 2-3 times as long as broad, ± obtuse, opaque, snow-white, exceeding the flowers. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate or honeycombed. Flowers 57-87, 38-66 ('female'), 13-22 ('bisexual')', in the proportion 2-4.5:1. Achenes c. 0.75 mm long with duplex hairs. Pappus present on both ('female') and ('bisexual') flowers.
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Prostrate, thinly grey-woolly, perennial herb, up to 0.12 m long, rooting at nodes. Leaves alternate, oblong-spathulate, entire, silky grey-tomentose. Capitula disciform, in small groups of up to 4, conspicuously pedunculate; involucral bracts in ± 4 rows, outer ones brown, woolly at base, apex of inner ones snow-white, obtuse. Female florets filiform, outnumbering disc florets. Disc florets bisexual, narrowly tubular. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Pappus of bristles with scabrid apex present in both female and disc florets. Cypselae small, oblong, sparsely hairy.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Gnaphalium limicola world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:209653-1
WFO ID wfo-0000116061
COL ID 3GKCY
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Synonyms

Gnaphalium limicola