Hymenolepis dentata (Dc.) Källersjö

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Hymenolepis

Characteristics

Single stemmed shrub to 1.5 m, sparsely branched from near base; branches densely leafy above, glabrous. Leaves, spreading, remaining ± equally sized and dense towards synflorescence, elliptic, 5-20 x 2-5 mm, entire or strongly pinnatisect with up to 15 lobes, lobes linear, 1-6 x 1-2 mm, glabrous, margins revolute, coriaceous, greenish. Capitula aggregated into congested, simple corymbs, peduncles usually ± obscured; synflorescence 12-50 mm diam., peduncle bracts linear 3-5 mm long. Involucre narrowly cylindrical, spreading apically, 5-10 mm long, involucral bracts 9 or 10, unequal, narrowly oblong, 4-6 x 0.5-1.0 mm, glabrous, with scarious margins, brownish. Florets 5. Pappus of basally united, lanceolate scales. Cypselas ellipsoid to narrowly obovoid, 1.0-2.5 x 0.3-0.6 mm, ribs glabrous.
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Glabrous shrub to 1.2 m. Leaves linear or almost filiform, entire to deeply toothed, rarely lobed. Flower heads discoid, small, crowded in rounded corymbs, yellow.
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Distribution

Hymenolepis dentata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942527-1
WFO ID wfo-0000120044
COL ID 3NJXK
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Synonyms

Athanasia schizolepis Hymenolepis dentata Oligodora dentata