Helichrysum asperum (Thunb.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helichrysum

Characteristics

Tangled, twiggy, shrublet, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves often tufted on short shoots, linear, apiculate, 2-6 x 0.5 mm, woolly or glabrescent, margins strongly revolute. Flowerheads 1-4 at branch tips, discoid, cylindric, ± 4 mm long, bracts 5-or 6-seriate, subacute, erect, light golden-brown, caducous, florets ± 10.
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Tangled, twiggy, thinly grey-woolly shrublet to 40 cm. Leaves often tufted on short shoots, linear, apiculate, woolly or glabrescent, margins strongly revolute. Flower heads discoid, 1-4 at branch tips, cylindric, brownish, ± 4 x 2 mm, florets ± 10, ovary papillate-hairy.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Cold (unspecified), Stomach (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 7 - 10
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Helichrysum asperum world distribution map, present in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:212446-1
WFO ID wfo-0000073011
COL ID 6LHC9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Gnaphalium laxum Gnaphalium metalasioides Helichrysum asperum Helichrysum ericaefolium Gnaphalium ericoides Helichrysum laxum Stoebe aspera Seriphium asperum Gnaphalium ericifolium Astelma lineare Helichrysum ericaefolium var. ericaefolium Helichrysum asperum var. asperum Helichrysum ericaefolium var. laxum Helichrysum ericoides Helichrysum ericifolium var. laxum

Lower taxons

Helichrysum asperum var. comosum Helichrysum asperum var. appressifolium Helichrysum asperum var. albidulum Helichrysum asperum var. glabrum