Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
asperum: rough
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Helichrysum asperum (Thunb.) Hilliard & B.L. Burtt Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=159480
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Perennial herb with often prostrate branches. Leaves up to 20 mm long, linear, whitish woolly, particularly below, gland-dotted; margin rolled under. Capitula in tight terminal and axillary clusters, c. 1 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts creamy-white, c. 6-seriate, up to 5 mm long, narrowly oblong, colourless or pinkish. Florets yellow, tipped with pink.
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- cc-by-nc
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Helichrysum asperum (Thunb.) Hilliard & B.L. Burtt Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=159480
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe and S Africa as far as the Eastern Cape.
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- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Helichrysum asperum (Thunb.) Hilliard & B.L. Burtt Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=159480
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
