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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herb with white-woolly prostrate stems up to 8 cm long, growing from a taproot. Leaves densely crowded and overlapping, sessile, broadly ovate, up to 1.5 cm long, white or pale grey felted on both surfaces. Capitula densely crowded at the ends of branches, sessile; involucre up to 1 cm in diameter; bracts 3-5-seriate, white; florets yellow, c. 3.8 mm long. |
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Derivation of specific name: | moggii: after Albert Oliver Dean Mogg (1886-1980), South African botanist, ecologist and lecturer in botany, curator of the Moss Herbarium. |
Habitat: | In sandy soils near the shore. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Known only from Inhaca Island |
Mozambique distribution: | M |
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Endemic status: | Endemic |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Tuesday 10 October 2017 |
Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 81. Wild, H. (1982). New species and new names of Helichrysum Mill. from the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 12(2) Page 195. Protologue Wild, H. (Undated, c. 1980?). A draft revision of Helichrysum Mill. for Flora Zambesiaca Unpublished ms. Pages 74 - 75. |
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