Helichrysum callicomum Harv.

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Helichrysum callicomum

Photo: Bart Wursten
SRGH

Helichrysum callicomum

Photo: Bart Wursten
SRGH

Helichrysum callicomum

Photo: Bart Wursten
SRGH

Helichrysum callicomum

Photo: Bart Wursten
SRGH

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Status: Native
Description:
Small, erect, bushy perennial, up to 35 cm tall. Leaves sessile, oblong-spathulate to narrowly oblong, up to 2.5 cm long, gradually smaller higher up the stems, covered in greyish-white velvet on both sides. Capitula in dense terminal corymbose heads, up to 8 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts c. 4-seriate, up to 3.7 mm long, pale straw-coloured. Florets yellowish.
Notes: Recorded for Botswana in Setshogo (2005).
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Habitat: In grassland.
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Worldwide distribution: Zimbabwe and Botswana to Eastern Cape, South Africa and Lesotho.
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Content last updated: Thursday 4 August 2016
Literature:

Hilliard, O.M. (1983). Asteraceae, Inuleae, Gnaphaliinae Flora of Southern Africa 33-7-2 Pages 68 - 70. (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 26.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 34.

Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 16 - 17.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Botswana: Species information: Helichrysum callicomum.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=159520, retrieved 5 December 2024

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