Syncarpha vestita (L.) B.Nord.

Species

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Characteristics

Robust shrub or suffrutex, 0.3-1.5 m high. Leaves alternate, long, linear, narrowly oblong or very narrowly obovate, apex broadly acute, mucronate, thickly clothed with whitish, interwoven wool, entire, sessile, upper leaves tipped with scabrous-membranous scale. Capitula discoid, large, pedunculate, terminal, solitary or corymbose; involucral bracts imbricate, snow-white. Florets pinkish or purplish. Flowering time Jan. Pappus of basally connate, sparsely barbellate bristles. Cypselae black, oblong, 4-angular, globose hairy.
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Densely leafy, grey-woolly, softly woody shrublet to 1 m. Leaves oblanceolate, ascending. Flower heads discoid, few to several in loose, terminal clusters nested in leaves, conical, 35-40 mm diam.; bracts papery, acute, white.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 1.5
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Environment

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Soil texture 7-8
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Images

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Distribution

Syncarpha vestita world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:947261-1
WFO ID wfo-0000031576
COL ID 7B7FS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Gnaphalium acilepis Gnaphalium vestitum Syncarpha vestita Helichrysum vestitum Helichrysum lanatum Helichrysum speciosum Xeranthemum vestitum