Helichrysum pumilio (O.Hoffm.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helichrysum

Characteristics

Closely or more loosely branched, grey-woolly dwarf shrublet, up to 200 mm tall. Leaves linear-spathulate, mostly 4-20 x 3-7 mm, glandular and grey-woolly, margins subrevolute. Flowerheads solitary or in small, terminal corymbs, disciform, campanulate, ± 5-6 mm long, bracts ± 5-seriate, acute to acuminate and ± squarrose, flushed red, white or golden-brown above, woolly below, florets 30-100.
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2
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Soil texture 7-8
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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 pumilio world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:908838-1
WFO ID wfo-0000087877
COL ID 6LHHH
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Synonyms

Helichrysum laneum Helichrysum hutchinsonii Leontonyx pumilio Helichrysum bolusianum Gnaphalium pusillum Helichrysum pumilio subsp. pumilio Helichrysum pachyrhizum var. thunbergii Helichrysum pumilio