Species Grielum humifusum
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Grielum:
Gk. grelos = old; referring to the hoary leaves (William Henry Harvey, Flora Capensis).
Etymology of humifusum:
From the Latin humus = ‘ground’ and fusus = ‘poured over’; referring to a spreading habitat
Scientific name:
Grielum humifusum Thunb.
Etymology applies to:
Common names:
Pietsnot
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Synonym status:
Prostrate, thinly white-woolly annual, often mat-forming. Leaves pinnatisect, glabrescent above, lobes rounded. Flowers yellow with a pale eye. Fruits depressed-pentagonal with a peripheral wing and central spines Mainly July--Oct. Sandy lower slopes and flats, NW, SW, KM (S Namibia to Robertson and W Karoo).
Observations of Taxon
Grielum humifusum
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Grielum humifusum
Name of observer:
Annelise Le Roux and Zelda Wahl (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Grielum humifusum
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
03/09/2020 - 5:51pm
Collection:
Grielum humifusum
Name of observer:
Riaan de Villiers (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Grielum humifusum
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
07/09/2013 - 6:06pm
Collection:
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