Helichrysum panduratum O.Hoffm.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helichrysum

Characteristics

A diffuse, loosely branched, soft-wooded sub-shrub, stems loosely and thinly grey-woolly, leafy, becoming pendunculoid upwards with small distant leaves passing into inflorescence bracts. Leaves up to ±70 x 35 mm, panduriform, sessile, base broadly auricled. half-clasping, (ovate-rhomboid, petiolate in var. transvaalense), margins somewhat crisped, thinly grey-woolly above, densely so below. Heads homogamous, subglobose, ±5-6 mm long, double that across the radiating bracts, many in loose terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, backs woolly above the stereome, tips subacute or obtuse, often erose, opaque white. Receptacle with fimbrils about equalling the ovary. Flowers 27-48(-68 in var. transvaalense), yellow, honey-scented. Achenes ±1 mm long, barrel-shaped, obscurely ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, about equalling corolla, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia, lightly fused as well.
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A small shrub or scrambling herb. The leaves are 7 cm long by 4 cm wide. They get smaller up the stem. They are broad at the base and clasp the stem. They have dense woolly hairs underneath. The flowers are yellow with whtie bracts.
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It is a tropical plant. It can grow in arid places. It grows along the edges of forests and in woodland.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Uses food medicinal
Edible leaves
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Germination duration (days) 7 - 10
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Helichrysum panduratum world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

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WFO ID wfo-0000061735
COL ID 6LHHQ
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Synonyms

Helichrysum panduratum Helichrysum panduratum var. panduratum Helichrysum auriculatum var. panduratum Helichrysum auriculatum var. auriculatum