Species Elytropappus longifolius
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There aren’t any identifications of Elytropappus longifolius.
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Etymology of Elytropappus:
Gk. elytron = a sheath, covering; pappos = down, fluff; referring to the small cup-like rim around the base of the feathery pappus (Plantzafrica.com); a second source says referring to the fluffy bracts.
Etymology of longifolius:
From the Latin longus = "long" and folium = "leaf", referring to the long leaves
Scientific name:
Elytropappus longifolius (DC.) Levyns
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Thinly white-woolly shrub to 1 m with stiffly erect branches. Leaves linear with involute margins, recurved and twisted, glandular-scabrid. Flower heads discoid, few in axillary clusters together forming elongate spikes or open racemes, pink, florets narrowly funnel-shaped, 3--6-flowered. Achenes warty above. Feb.--Apr. Sandstone slopes, SW (Cape Peninsula to Genadendal).
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There aren’t any identifications of Elytropappus longifolius.
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