Helichrysum inyangense Wild

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Frequency:	Local
Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with branching stems up to 30 cm high, growing from a woody taproot. Basal leaves sessile, narrowly oblanceolate, up to 1.7 cm long, densely pale grey woolly hairy; leaves along the stems, linear-filiform, up to 3.7 cm long, green and scabrid glandular above, dense;y white hairy beneath; margin rolled under. Capitula solitary and terminal on the branches; peduncles up to 8.5 cm long; involucre hemispheric, up to 1,2 cm in diameter, bracts 4-5-seriate, shiny yellow with dark brown to black tips. Florets yellow.
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Derivation of specific name:	inyangense: of the Nyanga (Inyanga) area of the Zimbabwean Eastern Highlands.
Habitat:	In montane grassland and on granite outcrops.
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Worldwide distribution:	Restricted to the Nyanga area of eastern Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
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Endemic status:	Endemic
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Images last updated:	Thursday 4 August 2016
Literature:	Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 134. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 26. Wild, H. (1982). New species and new names of Helichrysum Mill. from the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 12(2) Pages 193 - 194. Protologue

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Helichrysum inyangense
African Plant Database: Helichrysum inyangense
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