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Inulanthera calva (Hutch.) Källersjö

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Inulanthera

Characteristics

Shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves alternate, often crowded and tufted, sessile; blade oblong or narrowly obovate, mostly with a pair of basal, linear, stipule-like lobes, margins entire or apex 3-toothed or sharply serrate in upper half, glabrous or thinly to densely hairy, glandular-punctate. Heads discoid, subglobose, many in terminal, compound corymbs. Involucral bracts in several series, imbricate. Receptacle paleate. Flowers: disc florets only, bright yellow; Mar. Fruit with cypsela narrowly obovate, ribs ± scabrid, without superficial glands between ribs. Pappus of minute teeth from upward prolongations of cypselar ribs.
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Shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong or oblanceolate, with a pair of basal, linear, stipule-like lobes, margins entire to sharply serrate in upper half, glabrous, primary leaves with axillary leaf tufts or shoots. Capitula discoid, small, in dense, terminal corymbs. Receptacle paleate. Florets tubular below, dilated above, bright yellow. Flowering time Mar. Pappus of minute teeth-upward prolongations of ribs. Cypselae without superficial glands between ribs, ribs ± scabrid.
Shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves sessile, oblong or oblanceolate, with a pair of basal, linear, stipule-like lobes, margins entire to sharply serrate. Achenes without superficial glands between ribs, ribs ± scabrid; pappus of minute teeth-upward prolongations of ribs. Flowers bright yellow; September to November and February to April.
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Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Distribution

Inulanthera calva world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942542-1
WFO ID wfo-0000034489
COL ID 6N7FN
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Synonyms

Athanasia calva Inulanthera calva
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