Ursinia serrata (L.F.) Poir.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ursinia

Characteristics

Suffrutex, slender, often thinly woolly, 0.3-0.6 m high. Leaves serrate, leaves on peduncles minutely covered with membranous apical appendages. Capitula in groups at branch tips, pedunculate; involucral bracts all with large, round, brownish, membranous, apical appendages. Paleae oblong. Ray florets yellow. Flowering time Nov., Dec. Pappus of 5 scales, white, ovate, striate, with brown spot towards base. Cypselae ± straight, obconical, muricate, base of cypsela with spiral wall thickening; length with pappus scales 1.4-1.7 mm.
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Slender, often thinly woolly, densely leafy, erect shrublet to 1.5 m. Leaves ascending, narrowly oblong, sharply toothed, 15-60 mm long. Flower heads radiate, solitary on short to long, axillary peduncles crowded at branch tips, yellow, ± 15-35 mm diam.; bracts all broad, golden papery; pappus scales 5, uniseriate.
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Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.6
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Soil texture 5-6
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
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Distribution

Ursinia serrata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:178694-1
WFO ID wfo-0000132520
COL ID 7F2HC
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Synonyms

Sphenogyne incisa Sphenogyne serrata Ursinia incisa Arctotis serrata Arctotis serrata Ursinia serrata