Helichrysum odoratissimum (L.) Sweet

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Along path to Morumbodzi Falls, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa.

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Synonyms:	Gnaphalium aureofulvum Berg. Gnaphalium odoratissimum L. Gnaphalium pedunculare L. Gnaphalium strigosum Thunb. Helichrysum pedunculare (L.) DC. Helichrysum sarveri S. Moore
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Status:	Native
Description:	Much-branched, straggling perennial, occasionally scrambling several meters high into surrounding vegetation. Leaves variable, up to 6 cm long, from linear-oblong to lanceolate or obovate-spathulate, grey-green above, glandular, covered in greyish-white velvet hairs below, sometimes also above. Capitula in more or less dense terminal flattened heads, matted together with greyish-white woolly hairs below. Involucral bracts c. 3-seriate, up to 2.3 mm long, oblong, shiny yellow, sometimes tinged brown. Florets bright yellow.
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Habitat:	In grassland and bracken scrub
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Flowering time:	Mainly Oct - Mar
Worldwide distribution:	Widespread throughout tropical Africa to the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Mozambique distribution:	N,Z,MS
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 28 August 2012
Literature:	Beentje, H.J. (ed.) (2002). Compositae (Part 2) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 410 - 412. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 98. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 30. Hilliard, O.M. (1983). Asteraceae, Inuleae, Gnaphaliinae Flora of Southern Africa 33-7-2 Pages 74 - 76. (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. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 31. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 55. Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 4 - 7.

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