Calicorema capitata
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Flower
20 Sep 2013
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Shrub covered in flowers
20 Sep 2013
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Flower
21 Feb 2018
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Full name: | Calicorema capitata (Moq.) Hook.f. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Klein swartstorm, Vaalbossie, Asbos, Bloubasbos, Bloustormbos, Bloustorm |
| English common name(s): | Grey desert bush |
| Synonym(s): | Aerva pechuelii Kuntze Sericocoma capitata Moq. Sericocoma shepperioides Schinz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | A short much-branched undershrub; branches alternate, terete, thick, ashy-grey, the younger tomentose; leaves all alternate, few, scattered, cylindric, obtuse, up to 0.75 in. long, about 0.5 lin. broad, glabrous; nerves not conspicuous; heads of flowers reaching 0.5 in. long and rather broader than long; bracteoles 2.5 lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, glabrous, hyaline; perianth reaching 5 lin. long, silky-hairy; 2 outer sepals longer and broader than the inner, all lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved; filaments rather more than 1 lin. long; staminodes very short, ovate, obtuse; anthers more than 0.5 lin. long, oblong; ovary glabrous; style 2 lin. long; stigma capitellate. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Calicorema capitata is a shrub which can reach 60 cm in height and 1.5 m in diameter. The stems, which bear only very small leaves are densely intertwined. The flower has sepals filled with long hair, no petals, stamens and pistil with pink thread. (from www.planetefleurs.fr, translated from French by Google Translate) |
| 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 |
