Species Passerina glomerata
Pictures from Observations
Range:
Location unknown
{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
Etymology of Passerina:
Believed to be from the Latin passer, a sparrow; -ina, relating to; referring to the black seeds resembling a sparrow?s beak.
Etymology of glomerata:
From the Latin glomeratus = ‘thickly clustered’
Scientific name:
Passerina glomerata Thunb.
Common names:
Synonym of:
Long etymology:
Scientific name status:
Synonym status:
Shrub or shrublet. Leaves truncate or hump-backed, hairy beneath, 2--4 mm long; bracts obovate, ribbed, larger. Flowers few in dense spikes, tube c. 3.5 mm long, neck very short. Fruits dry. Oct.--Nov. Sandy and stony flats, NW, SW (Bokkeveld Mts to Worcester).
Observations of Taxon
Passerina glomerata
Name of observer:
Riaan de Villiers (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown