Species Cullumia setosa
Pictures from Observations
There aren’t any identifications of Cullumia setosa.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Cullumia:
For Sir John Cullum (1733–1785), British botanist, geneologist, antiquarian, cleric and scholar, and author of History and Antiquities of Hawstead (1785), and his brother, Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), a medical practitioner, surgeon and botanist, member of the Linnaean Society, and author of Floræ Anglicæ Specimen imperfectum et ineditum (1774). Both became fellows of the Royal Society.
Etymology of setosa:
From the Latin seta = silk, setosus meaning ‘bristly’
Scientific name:
Cullumia setosa (L.) R. Br.
Common names:
Steekhaarbos
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Synonym status:
Prickly, densely leafy, sprawling shrublet to 60 cm, sometimes cobwebby. Leaves ovate, recurved, margins thickened and bristly sometimes in two rows, tips pungent and reflexed. Flower heads radiate, yellow, solitary at the branch tips. Mainly Aug.--Oct. Lower mountain slopes, SW (Cape Peninsula to Stanford and Riviersonderend Mts).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Cullumia setosa.