Pteronia beckeoides Dc.

Species

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Characteristics

A slender, twiggy shrub; older twigs quite glabrous; young twigs and leaves minutely pulverulent, slender. Leaves opposite, linear, subacute, 24 mm long, 1 mm wide, thickish, somewhat keeled, entire, powdery. Heads terminal, solitary, sessile, oblong-turbinate, conical at the base. 14-2 cm long, glabrous. Involucral bracts in many rows, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, with membranous lorn edges, the outer short. Achenes densely hairy. Pappus foxy.
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Slender, twiggy shrub. Leaves powdery, linear. Flower heads discoid, solitary on branch tips, yellow, 14-20 mm long; bracts with membranous margins.
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Distribution

Pteronia beckeoides world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:240215-1
WFO ID wfo-0000120866
COL ID 78MC7
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Synonyms

Pteronia beckeoides