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Berkheya setifera
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Grassland plateau above Morumbodzi Falls, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Grassland plateau above Morumbodzi Falls, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa.
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| Synonyms: |
Berkheya setifera DC. var. tropica S. Moore Crocodilodes setiferum (DC.) Kuntze |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Robust, perennial herb, up to 1.2 m tall. Stems annual, branched in the upper part, thinly covered in cobweb-like hairs. Leaves mainly basal, with some smaller leaves along the stem, oblanceolate to obovate, up to 45 cm long, upper surface and margins densely set with straw-coloured spiny bristles, 2-7 mm long, longest at the apices of the marginal teeth; lower surface hairy like the stems; lamina base clasping the stems. Capitula terminal 3-6 cm in diameter, solitary on the stems and branches or rarely several more or less clustered, bright yellow; ray-florets 12-20 mm long; disk-florets numerous. |
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| Habitat: | In submontane grassland, bracken scrub and along road sides. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini and Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 22 June 2012 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 8. 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 23. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 242. Roessler, H. (1975). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca Area, 5 Subtribe Gorteriinae. Kirkia 10(1) Pages 77 - 78. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 88. |
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