Species Disparago tortilis
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Etymology of Disparago:
La. dispar = unlike, dissimilar; -ago = resemblance or connection; referring to the different sorts of floret in each tiny capitulum.
Etymology of tortilis:
From the Latin torquere = 'contorted', 'winding' or 'twisted'
Scientific name:
Disparago tortilis (DC.) Sch. Bip.
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Protologue:
Jahresber. Pollichia xviii-xix. 181 (1861)
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1861
Much-branched, thinly cobwebby shrub to 90 cm. Leaves linear with involute margins, recurved and twisted, bristle-tipped. Flower heads radiate or discoid, mostly 1-flowered, grouped in dense globose clusters, pink or white, pappus bristles plumose, ray florets female. Mainly May--Sept. Sandy slopes, SW, LB, SE (Hottentots Holland to S KwaZulu-Natal).
Observations of Taxon
Disparago tortilis
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Auriol Batten (David)
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Disparago tortilis
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Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
25/02/2013 - 1:01pm
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