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Hirpicium angustifolium
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Dam 2, Nyika National Park
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| Synonyms: |
Gazania angustifolia O. Hoffm. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Tufted perennial herb up to 30 cm high, growing from a small rootstock with numerous, somewhat fleshy roots; rootcrowns densely woolly. Stems annual, 1–3, purplish, more or less woolly and with scattered weak, brown or purplish bristles. Leaves basal, erect, numerous, filiform-linear, up to 30 cm long, sparsely scabridulous or hairless above, densely woolly beneath except for the midrib; margin entire, rolled under except below, ciliate mostly near the base. Capitula solitary and terminal. Involucres 5–10 mm. in diam., woolly, sometimes with a few small bristles. Rays yellow, often brown or purplish outside, oblanceolate, 15–20 mm long; margin sometimes inrolled. Disk-floret yellow, 4.5–5.5 mm long. Achenes obconic, c. 2 mm long, somewhat sticky glandular, densely silvery hairy; pappus scales uniseriate, brownish-hyaline, overlapping, oblong, 2.5–3 mm long, fimbriate about the apex. |
| Notes: | This species is very similar to Gazania krebsiana which is also found in the same type habitat. It is best distinguished by the more or less densely rootcrown, stems and involucre. Differences in the achene and pappus make this a Hirpicium and not a Gazania. |
| Derivation of specific name: | angustifolium: with long and narrow leaves. |
| Habitat: | A pyrophyte, in burnt seasonally wet grassland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Eastern DRC, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia |
| Malawi distribution: | N,C |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Wednesday 10 April 2019 |
| Literature: |
Beentje, H.J. (ed.) (2000). Compositae (Part 1) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 297 - 298. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 99. (Includes a picture). Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 31. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 251 - 252. Roessler, H. (1975). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca Area, 5 Subtribe Gorteriinae. Kirkia 10(1) Page 95. |
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