Dicoma schinzii O. Hoffm.

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Bembesi Forest Land, by main road from Hwange to Bulawayo

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C49 South of Mudumu National Park

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B8 road through Bwabwata

Habit
Kalahari woodland
Musole, Sesheke District
Apr 2024
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Flower
Kalahari woodland
Musole, Sesheke District
Apr 2024
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Synonyms:	Dicoma arenicola Muschl. ex Dinter Dicoma lanata Muschl. ex Dinter
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Status:	Native
Description:	Low spreading perennial herb, up to 60 cm wide or 25 cm tall, growing from a woody taproot. Stems annual, 1-several, branched, covered in brownish or greyish felt-like hairs. Leaves more or less broadly elliptic, covered in greyish felt-like hairs, more densely so below, often also with conspicuous brownish hairs on the margin and veins below. Capitula terminal and axillary, with green involucres bearing spreading straw-coloured spiny bristles. Florets whitish or reddish-tinged. Pappus of numerous bristly straw-coloured setae, up to 11 mm long.
Type location:	Namibia
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Freestate and Northern Cape, South Africa.
National distribution:	N,SW,SE
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Literature:	Gonçalves, M.L. (1978). Molluginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 531 - 532. As Limeum arenicola Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 118. (Includes a picture). 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 24. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 40 - 41. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 32. Wild, H. (1972). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 3. Mutisieae. Kirkia 8(2) Pages 185 - 186.

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