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Pteronia stoehelinoides Dc.

Species

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Characteristics

A rigid, scrubby bush; branches pubescent with very short rigid reflexed white hairs, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 1.3-2 cm long, free at the base, flat or concave above, keeled beneath, rigidly ciliate, otherwise glabrous. Heads about 28-flowered, sessile, terminal, solitary, cylindric-campanulate, 2.5-3 cm long, about 2 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts 7-seriate, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subacute or subobtuse, very minutely puberulous outside, with membranous margins. Corolla 1.5 cm long, ribbed, gradually widened upwards, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 3/4-1 in. long. Anthers slightly exserted. Achenes 4 mm long, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs at the base and a few very small glands. Pappus 1.5 cm long, dull white.
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Rigid shrub, 0.30-0.45 m high. Leaves opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate, apex acute, free at base, margins ciliate, glabrous. Capitula discoid, large, terminal, solitary, sessile; involucral bracts in many rows, imbricate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex subacute or subobtuse, margins membranous. Florets yellow. Flowering time June-Sept. Pappus of whitish, barbellate bristles. Cypselae glabrous except for tuft of hairs at base and some glands.
Rigid, much-branched, scabridulous shrub to 30 cm. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, keeled, roughly ciliate on margins. Flower heads discoid, solitary at branch tips, yellow, 25-30 x 20 mm; bracts viscid.
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Distribution

Pteronia stoehelinoides world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:240313-1
WFO ID wfo-0000088426
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Synonyms

Pteronia stoehelinoides
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