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Hippia frutescens L.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Hippia

Characteristics

Aromatic, sprawling shrub or suffrutex, 0.15-1.50 m high. Leaves alternate, petiolate, deeply pinnately lobed, lobes oblanceolate to linear, up to 12 on each side, hairy. Capitula disciform, several in terminal corymb, pedunculate; involucral bracts imbricate, in 2 or 3 rows. Ray florets female, corolla tube short or conical, minutely 2-4-lobed, without lamina. Disc florets functionally male, corolla tube funnel-shaped, yellow. Flowering time July-Nov. Pappus absent. Cypselae dorsiventrally flattened, laterally winged, body glabrous outside, hairy inside.
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Shortly hairy, straggling shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves pectinate-pinnatifid, lobes oblong to linear. Flower heads discoid, in branched corymbs, yellow. Achenes winged.
Rami satis robusti, erecti; folia brevissime pubescentia, 2-4.5 cm. longa; achaenia glabra.
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 1.5
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Hippia frutescens world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:224878-1
WFO ID wfo-0000127487
COL ID 3LZC2
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Synonyms

Hippia frutescens Eriocephalus pectinifolius Hippia odora Tanacetum frutescens
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