Species Helichrysum cymosum
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Etymology of Helichrysum:
Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
Etymology of cymosum:
From the Latin cymosus = 'cymose' - an arrangement of flowers in a cyme which is an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the inflorescence being continued by secondary, tertiary, and other axes
Scientific name:
Helichrysum cymosum (L.) D. Don
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Protologue:
Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 5: 550 (1824)
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1824
Straggling, thinly woolly shrub to 1 m. Leaves linear to elliptic, thinly silky or hairs skin-like above, white-felted beneath, margins lightly revolute. Flower heads disciform, occ. discoid, crowded in terminal corymbs, cylindric, yellow, c. 3 1 mm, florets 6--20, ovary glabrous. Sept.--Apr. Sandy slopes in damp places, SW, AP, KM, LB, SE (Mamre to Mpumalanga).
Observations of Taxon
Helichrysum cymosum
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CE van Ginkel or CJ Cilliers (David)
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Helichrysum cymosum
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Auriol Batten (David)
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Helichrysum cymosum
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Ross Turner (David)
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14/02/2006 - 2:29pm
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Helichrysum cymosum
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Yvette van Wijk (Yvette)
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14/08/2009 - 2:23pm
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Helichrysum cymosum
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Cameron McMaster (David)
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14/01/2012 - 4:17pm
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