Perennial herb, stems much-branched, spreading, ashy-grey, closely leafy. Leaves linear, up to 15 x 1 mm, margins strongly revolute, white-cottony, contrasting strongly with the silky-grey upper leaf surface and the midrib below, giving a striped effect to the leaves. Heads heterogamous, narrowly campanulate, c. 5 x 3 mm, few clustered at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, pellucid, palest brown, inner with stereome undivided, tips opaque milk-white, exceeding the flowers. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers c. 45-65, 30-50 'female', corolla filiform, 12-13 'female', corolla cylindric, all lobes glandular-hairy on backs. Anthers with small obtuse apical appendage and tails exceeding the filament collar. Style branches truncate and penicillate. Achenes less than 0.5 mm long, with minute 2-celled globular hairs without a swelling cushion, myxogenic. Pappus bristles many, tips plumose, shaft nude, 2 or 3 bristles fused together near the base and then, a little lower, these compound bristles fused into a smooth ring. From: Hilliard, OM. 1983. Gnaphaliinae (first part): Facelis - Edmondia. Fl. S. Africa 33(7,2): 1-317. Botanical Research Institute, Department Agriculture, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209547#page/5/mode/1up] [CC BY]
The only species, and a most distinctive plant in both general aspect and peculiar pappus. From: Hilliard, OM. 1983. Gnaphaliinae (first part): Facelis - Edmondia. Fl. S. Africa 33(7,2): 1-317. Botanical Research Institute, Department Agriculture, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209547#page/5/mode/1up] [CC BY]
Found in sandy places. From: Hilliard, OM. 1983. Gnaphaliinae (first part): Facelis - Edmondia. Fl. S. Africa 33(7,2): 1-317. Botanical Research Institute, Department Agriculture, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209547#page/5/mode/1up] [CC BY]
Endemic to the coastal plain of southern Mozambique and its southward extension into Zululand, as far south as the shores of Lake St Lucia. From: Hilliard, OM. 1983. Gnaphaliinae (first part): Facelis - Edmondia. Fl. S. Africa 33(7,2): 1-317. Botanical Research Institute, Department Agriculture, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209547#page/5/mode/1up] [CC BY]
December to April
0 to 45 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Anaxeton septentrionale Vatke
Gnaphalium septentrionale (Vatke) Hilliard
Gnaphalium stenophyllum Oliv. & Hiern, nom.illegit.
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asterales
FAMILY Asteraceae
SUBFAMILY Asteroideae
TRIBE Gnaphalieae
GENUS Helichrysopsis
SPECIES septentrionalis
23 results for Helichrysopsis septentrionalis (Vatke) Hilliard
Barcode: PRE0839028-0 Collector(s) & number: Williams, R, 967 | 1992-11-7
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Maputaland: Sileza.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0734057-0 Collector(s) & number: Ngwenya, AM, 534 | 1988-3-9
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, KOSI LAKE; SWASHU FOREST; N SHORE OF KOSI LAKE. FOREST MARGIN
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0126722-0 Collector(s) & number: Williams, R, 967 | 1992-11-7
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Maputaland, Sileza.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0128369-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, CJ, 11911 | 1992-3-8
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, North Coast. Lake Nhlabane area. North Lake: Eastern side.
General notes: Vegetation type: open herb stand. Substrate: soil (moist). Moisture regime: depression. Soil type: sand. Exposure: sun. Aspect: East. Slope: level. Other: near base of large depression (old wind scour). Plant features: herb, semi-cushion form. Notes: common.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0126772-0 Collector(s) & number: Lubbe, RA, 542 | 1994-12-7
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Kosi Bay, Lake Nhlange, vlei area near Scotty's house.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0070493-0 Collector(s) & number: Ross, 5106 | 1970-9-23
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Manzefama.
General notes: Locally common where forest canopy has been removed.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0062529-0 Collector(s) & number: Pooley, ES, 269 | 1968-12-20
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, iLala flats past Mosi on road to Maputo. N. Zululand.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0174910-0 Collector(s) & number: Ross, JH, 5106 | 1970-9-23
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, MANZENYAMA
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0659330-0 Collector(s) & number: Jacobsen, NHG, 6108 | 2002-8-31
Mozambique, San Sebastian Peninsula, east of Vilanculos.
General notes: Miombo woodland. Gentle slope. Footpath. A prostrate, mat-forming forb with white bracts subtending flowers. Height: 50-60 mm. Uncommon, recorded along ecotone between woodland and marsh.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0174909-0 Collector(s) & number: Vahrmeijer, J(H), 1624 | 1968-2-21
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, NYAMENI; LAKE SIBAYI
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0103474-0 Collector(s) & number: Ngwenya, AM, 534 | 1988-3-9
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Swashu Forest, Northern shore of Kosi Lake.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0174912-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, CJ, 6575 | 1968-4-11
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, MAPUTA AIRSTRIP
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0120571-0 Collector(s) & number: Lubbe, RA, 344 | 1994-10-22
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Kosi Bay Coastal Forest Reserve, KwaZibi Area south of Zamokuhle learning centre.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0234320-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 10447 | 1971-9-10
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, MAPUTA; SHIHADLA
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0513850-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, CJ, 8185 | 1972-12-8
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, KOSI BAY; SIFUNGO LAKE
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0084109-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, MC, 1092 | 1985-10-15
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Sifungo Area, Kosi system.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0070492-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 10447 | 1971-9-10
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Maputa, Shihadla.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0584702-0 Collector(s) & number: Zietsman, PC, 4261 | 2000-11-14
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ingwavuma. Sileza.
General notes: Flowers in terminal inflorescence. Leaves - margins strongly rolled, silky-grey above, white cottony beneath. Conf.: NC Netnou.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0802691-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, CJ, 11911 | 1992-3-8
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, North Coast: Lake Nhlabane Area; North Lake, eastern side. 28°36'S ; 32°17'E.
General notes: Open herb stand. Soil (moist). Depression. Sand. Sun. Level E slope. Near base of large depression (old wind scour). Herb, semi-cushion form. Common. Ex Ward Herbarium, University of Durban-Westville, Natal
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0690106-0 Collector(s) & number: Germishuizen, G, 3536 | 1985-12-3
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, ZULULAND; I. D. C. RICE; PROJECT SITE. C 2 KM FROM PHELANDABA TURN-OFF ON MBAZWANA ROAD
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0087247-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Wyk, GF, 932 | 1986-10-16
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Sodwana State Forest, KwaMbila.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0988442-0 Collector(s) & number: Burrows, JE, 14527 | 2015-1-6
Mozambique, Gaza, Bilene, complex of lakes (Lago Muandje) c. 16 km WSW of Bilene town
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0115215-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Wyk, AE, 12190 | 1992-5-21
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Manzimhlophe Pan, north west of Manzengwenya.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2008
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Asteraceae in Strelitzia 14 (2003) and Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report Herman, PPJBothalia (2)125-129
1997
BOOK
Énumération des Plantes à Fleurs d'Afrique Tropicale, Vol. 4 Lebrun, J-P; Stork, ALJardin Botanique, Geneva
1983
FLORA
Gnaphaliinae (first part): Facelis - Edmondia Hilliard, OMFlora of Southern Africa 33(7),21-317
Botanical Research Institute, Department Agriculture, Pretoria
No results found for Helichrysopsis septentrionalis (Vatke) Hilliard
Status and criteria
NE
Assessor(s)
Plantae Coordinator
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