Helichrysum tillandsiifolium
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Habit
Rocky montane grassland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman
Leaves
Rocky montane grassland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Rocky montane grassland
Mafinga Mountains, Mafinga District
Jan 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Helichrysum chamaethamnos Mattf. |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb forming cushions to 1 m in diameter, with flowering stems to 10(–20) cm high; rhizome woody and branched; stems prostrate, branched, covered in leaf sheaths, densely leafy. Leaves discolorous and silvery-grey beneath, sessile, linear, 1–3(–4) cm long, 0.1–0.3 cm wide, base half-amplexicaul and sheathing for afew mm, apex acute and mucronate, glabrous above with 3–5 clear parallel veins, silvery tomentose beneath. Capitula 3.5–6 mm long, heterogamous, 10–20(–30) together in terminal subglobose corymbs. Florets yellow, 40–50; outer florets 6–7, filiform, tube 2.3–2.5 mm long, lobes 0.4–0.5 mm long, style 2.5–3 mm long; inner florets 35–44, tube narrowly infundibuliform, 2.5–3 mm long, lobes 0.5–0.7 mm long, sparsely glandular, anthers ± 1.2 mm long, style 3–4 mm long. Achenes cylindrical, 0.5–0.9 mm long, glabrous; pappus white, 2–2.5 mm long, caducous in groups. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | tillandsifolium: with leaves resembling Tillandsia, a genus in the Bromeliad family, Bromeliaceae |
| Habitat: | Submontane grassland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Dec - Feb |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC (Katanga), Zambia and Tanzania |
| FZ divisions: | N |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 67. Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 46 - 47. |
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