Species Phylica excelsa
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There aren’t any identifications of Phylica excelsa.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Phylica:
Gk. phyllikos = leafy; referring to the plentiful foliage.
Etymology of excelsa:
From the Latin ‘excelsa’ / ‘excelsus’ meaning ‘high’
Scientific name:
Phylica excelsa J.C. Wendl.
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Synonym of:
Unknown
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Protologue:
Coll. Pl. 3: 3. t. 74
Synonym status:
Closely leafy shrub to 1 m, with few willowy branches. Leaves lanceolate, 7--15 mm long, rough, margins closely revolute. Flowers in solitary, rounded capitula surrounded by leaves and bracts with prominent golden hairs, whitish, sessile, clothed with retrorse grey-silky hairs. Dec.--May. Rocky sandstone slopes, NW, SW (Grootwinterhoek Mts to Cape Peninsula and Koo).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Phylica excelsa.