Ondetia linearis
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Habit
25 May 2006
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Winged stems
27 Apr 2008
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Branching
27 Apr 2008
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Fruit
27 Apr 2008
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Flower
27 Apr 2008
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Flower
27 Jun 2006
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Ondetia linearis Benth. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Decumbent diffusely branching herb, suffruticose at the base, pale green, puberulous-glandular, about 9 in. high; branches narrowly alate above. Leaves linear, acute, apiculate, sessile, narrowly decurrent, distantly denticulate often obsoletely so, 1–2 in. long by 0.0625– 0.167 in. wide. Capitula subglobose, 0.75 in. wide by 0.5 in. high, solitary, sessile, with bract-like leaves at base. Scales of involucre pluriseriate, scarious, obtuse or subacute, mucronate, ciliate, otherwise nearly glabrous; inner lanceolate, outer successively short, outermost subrotund. Fl. subtended by linear-lanceolate ciliate paleæ longer than themselves. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
