Pteronia erythrochaeta Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Pteronia

Characteristics

A scrubby shrub about 2 ft. high; branchlets minutely pubescent when young, at length glabrous, with greyish bark. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 8-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, usually distinctly 1-nerved beneath, finely canous-pubescent. Heads 4-5-flowered, solitary, sessile, turbinate, 1-1.5 cm long, about 8 mm in diameter. Involucral bracts 5-6-seriate, lanceolate, acute or subacute, 1-nerved, finely puberulous with membranous margins tinged with red, minutely ciliate. Corolla 1 cm long; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 2 mm long. Achenes 3 mm long, oblong-linear, coarsely and densely villous. Pappus 1 cm long, bright purple.
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Shrub, up to 0.9 m high; branches arching. Leaves small, opposite, sessile; blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, apex subacute, margins entire, finely canous-pubescent. Heads discoid, solitary, terminal. Involucral bracts 5-or 6-seriate, imbricate, very narrowly ovate, apex acute or subacute, margins membranous, minutely ciliate, tinged red, finely puberulous. Flowers: disc florets only, yellow; Aug.-Oct. Fruit with cypsela oblong-linear, densely villous. Pappus of purplish red bristles, barbellate, biseriate.
Shrub, 0.3-0.9 m high, branches arching. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, entire, finely canous-pubescent. Capitula discoid, solitary, terminal; involucral bracts in many rows, imbricate, lanceolate, acute or subacute, margins membranous, minutely ciliate, red-tinged, finely puberulous. Florets yellow. Flowering time Sept., Oct. Pappus of purplish red, barbellate bristles. Cypselae oblong-linear, densely villous.
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Mature height (meter) 0.61 - 0.9
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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Pteronia erythrochaeta world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:240249-1
WFO ID wfo-0000127137
COL ID 4PZVY
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Synonyms

Pteronia erythrochaeta