Pteronia utilis Hutch.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Pteronia

Characteristics

A bush about 30 cm high, with prostrate branches; branchlets setulose-pilose. Leaves opposite, free from each other at the base, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acutely mucronate, narrowed to the base, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 0.4-1 cm broad, coriaceous, 1-nerved, setose-pilose with white hairs cm the margins of both surfaces. Heads terminal, solitary, subsessile, campanulate, 2-2.5 cm long, about 1.5 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts about 5-seriate, lanceolate, acute, the outermost about 4 mm long, the innermost about 1.3 cm long, all slightly keeled, chaffy and darker-coloured in the middle with minutely ciliolate margins, otherwise glabrous. Receptacle concave, honeycombed, about 0.8 cm in diameter. Corolla yellow, subcylindric, gradually widened upwards, 1.3 cm long, finely puberulous about the middle, ribbed; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 2 mm long. Achenes 4-5 mm long, densely villous with whitish hairs. Pappus straw-coloured, 1 cm long.
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Spreading shrublet to 30 cm, branches prostrate, roughly hairy. Leaves oblong, scabrid, grey. Flower heads discoid, large, solitary at branch tips, yellow, 20-25 x 15 mm; bracts acute.
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Distribution

Pteronia utilis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:240327-1
WFO ID wfo-0000020784
COL ID 4PZYJ
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Synonyms

Pteronia utilis