Helichrysum pandurifolium Schrank

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helichrysum

Characteristics

A loosely branched, soft-wooded shrub, branches long, slender, thinly grey-woolly, leafy becoming pedunculoid and distantly bracteate below the inflorescence. Leaves mostly 8-16 x 8-10 mm, orbicular to broadly ovate abruptly narrowed to a broad petiole-like ear-clasping base, margins markedly crisped-undulate, both surfaces grey-woolly. Heads homogamous, broadly campanulate, ±5-8 x 6-10 mm(-14 mm when fully radiating), few to many in loose terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, outer sometimes palest brown, inner exceeding the flowers, backs loosely woolly above stereome, radiating, tips acute or subacute, somewhat crisped, opaque milk-white, sometimes suffused with rose. Receptacle with fimbrils exceeding ovaries. Flowers 12-39, yellow. Achenes 0.75 mm, barrel-shaped, glabrous. Pappus bristless many, scabrid, about equalling corolla, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Flowers between September and January, but mainly from October to December.
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Loosely branched, soft-wooded shrub. Stems thinly grey-woolly, leafy, becoming distantly bracteate below inflorescence. Leaves 8-16 x 8-10 mm, margins crisped-undulate, both sides grey-woolly. Capitula broadly campanulate, 5-8 x 6-14 mm, few-many; involucral bracts in 6 series, ± crisped, opaque milk-white, sometimes tinged with rose. Flowers 12-39, yellow. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Pappus of bristles, with bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Cypselae 0.75 mm long, barrel-shaped.
Straggling, grey-woolly shrublet or shrub. Leaves ovate, pseudopetiolate and auriculate-clasping below, crisped, grey-woolly. Flower heads discoid, few to many in terminal corymbs on peduncle-like branches, campanulate, creamy, ± 5-8 x 6-10 mm, florets 12-40, ovary glabrous.
A shrub. It is loosely branched and softly woody with long slender branches. The leaves are 8-16 mm long by 8-10 mm wide. They are broadly oval. There are 12-39 yellow flowers.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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It is a subtropical plant.
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Soil texture 5-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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

Helichrysum pandurifolium unspecified picture

Distribution

Helichrysum pandurifolium world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:213144-1
WFO ID wfo-0000081722
COL ID 3K73V
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Synonyms

Gnaphalium auriculatum Helichrysum auriculatum Gnaphalium patulum Helichrysum pandurifolium