Helichrysum oreophilum Klatt

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb with a woody branching rhizome, flowering stems erect to ±300 mm, simple, thinly grey silky-woolly, leafy. Leaves up to 80 x 15 mm, progressively smaller upwards, oblanceolate becoming lanceolate upwards, apex acute, base half-clasping, both surfaces grey silky-woolly, generally only the main nerve visible below. Heads homogamous, turbinate-campanulate, ±7 mm, several to many in a compact corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, subequal, loosely imbricate, cobwebby at base, tips acute, slightly exceeding the flowers, not radiating, lemon-yellow. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 9-12. Achenes ±1.25 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia, some light fusion as well.
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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 300 mm high, erect, simple, thinly grey silky-woolly, leafy. Leaves: blade narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, 80 x 15 mm, smaller upwards, apex acute, base half-clasping, both surfaces grey silky-woolly. Heads discoid, turbinate-campanulate, ± 7 mm long, several to many in compact, corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ± 5 series, subequal, loosely imbricate, cobwebby at base, tips acute, slightly exceeding florets, not radiating, lemon-yellow, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, honeycombed. Flowers: disc florets only, 9-12; corolla narrowly campanulate above, yellow; Oct.-Feb. Fruit with cypsela hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia, some light fusion as well.
Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves 80 x 15 mm, smaller upwards, oblanceolate to lanceolate, both sur faces grey silky-woolly. Heads turbinate-campanulate, 7 mm, several to many in compact corymbose panicle; involucral bracts loosely imbricate. Flowers with yellow involucral bracts.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system rhizome
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

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Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
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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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Images

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Distribution

Helichrysum oreophilum world distribution map, present in Lesotho, eSwatini, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:213127-1
WFO ID wfo-0000022658
COL ID 6LHHN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Helichrysum oreophilum