PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASTERALES / ASTERACEAE / CICHORIOIDEAE / INCERTAE SEDIS / HETEROLEPIS / MITIS
Habit: small, slender, sparsely- to well-branched shrublet, 0.15-0.3 m high. Stems: young stems green, sparsely glandular. Older stems twiggy, to 4.0 mm diameter, bark thick relative to stem diameter, stems marked with old leaf scars. Leaves: borne only towards the ends of the branches, loosely imbricate, uppermost leaves more densely-spaced, at least partially overlapping the capitulum; erect to spreading; linear-oblanceolate, 8-24 x 0.3-1.5 mm, not becoming smaller acropetally; narrowed towards base, sessile to very shortly petiolate, apex acute with a distinct mucro, thin and smooth-textured, margins narrowly revolute, entire, both leaf surfaces dark green, glabrous and sparsely to densely obscurely glandular, glands sunken into leaf surface to give a slightly pitted (foveolate) appearance, resinous, pitted and wrinkled on drying, midrib slightly raised on abaxial surface. Peduncle: capitula sessile, or peduncle 1-2 mm long, glandular with trichome type A, trichomes on peduncle larger than those on the adjacent stem. Capitula: radiate, in pressed specimens 22-30 mm in diameter including expanded rays, with ~44 disc and ~2-16 ray florets (note: this number based on only two dissected specimens). Involucre: 7-12 mm wide, fleshy portion sparsely dotted with very small pale glands; outermost bracts only slightly smaller than middle or inner, narrowly deltoid-lanceolate, free portion 5-7 x 0.8-1.0 mm, apically acute; inner bracts with free portion 8-10 x 2.0-4.0 mm. Involucre becoming dark brown when old. Receptacle: alveoles pentamerous, margins with short toothlike projections 0.5 mm long, a tooth at each of the five corners of each alveole. Ray florets: corolla deep yellow, corolla tube glabrous or with a few scattered glands, ± 4.5 mm long; ray lamina 3.0-4.0 x 7.5-9.0 mm, abaxial surface of lamina lobes apically gland-dotted with small, rounded trichomes. Staminodes with filaments; staminode tails rounded and incurved, apical appendages obtuse. Cypsela and pappus as in disc florets. Disc florets: deep yellow, tube 6.0 mm long; corolla lobes 2.5-3.0 mm long, becoming strongly recurved after anthesis, apically dotted with globose multicellular trichomes. Style extending ± 5 mm beyond corolla tube at maturity, becoming densely papillate at a slight thickening ~2.0-3.0 mm below apex, thickening without a longer tuft of sweeping hairs. Stigmatic branches short, narrowing slightly to rounded apices. Apical anther appendages about 1.0 mm long, obtuse with short mucro-like structure, central vein with dark yellow pigment near apex. Anther tails about 0.07 mm long, broadly acute, slightly curved inwards. Pappus: of approximately 20 robust, brittle, strap-shaped cartilaginous bristle-like scales, apically tinged strongly blue-black, colour fading to base which is straw-coloured and shiny; flattened and widened near base (to about 0.13 mm wide), tapering towards apex. Inner series of ± 10 bristles, 8-9 mm long, slightly longer than the full length of the corolla, narrowing towards the apex where the barbs become longer and increasingly dense. Outer series of ± 10 bristles, slightly narrower and much shorter than inner series, ± 3 mm long, apically more sparsely barbellate than inner bristles. Pappus elements free. Cypsela: twin-hairs bright white, providing a strong colour contrast to the pappus bristles. Recorded in flower in January, April, August, October and December, despite the small number of records. Possibly the plant flowers continuously throughout the year, or sporadically, depending on rainfall. From: Bergh, NG; McKenzie, RJ. 2016. A revision of Heterolepis Cass. (Asteraceae: Cichorioideae). S. African J. Bot. 105: 194-210. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2015.12.004] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2016); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Viscous, dwarf shrub, ± 0.5 m high. Leaves alternate, linear to very narrowly oblanceolate, entire, glandular, otherwise glabrous. Capitula radiate, solitary, subsessile or very shortly pedunculate; involucral bracts in 2 or 3 rows, inner ones without conspicuous membranous margins, acute. Ray florets yellow. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time Apr. Pappus of stout, subulate, bristle-like, marginally barbellate scales in 2 rows, outer row shorter than inner. Cypselae oblong-obovoid, densely sericeous. From: Cron, GV; et al. 2019. Asteraceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 423-682. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
The most morphologically distinct member of the genus, due to its small size, dark green, glabrous and slender leaves, small, sessile capitula partly enveloped by the upper leaves, and habit of growing in the crevices of sandstone rocks. The leaves, stems and involucral bracts are markedly less glandular-scabrid than all other species in the genus, although small, somewhat sunken glands are present. Probably the most distinctive feature of Heterolepis mitis is its glabrous foliage, giving the plant a dark-green appearance in contrast to the grey-green or whitish appearance of the other species. Heterolepis mitis also has the easternmost distribution. Several collections note the fact that the plants are ‘aromatic’, and rehydrated material is exceptionally pungent-smelling. The stems and leaves frequently become viscid on drying, as if covered with a clear varnish layer, a feature which has not been observed on other species of Heterolepis. From: Bergh, NG; McKenzie, RJ. 2016. A revision of Heterolepis Cass. (Asteraceae: Cichorioideae). S. African J. Bot. 105: 194-210. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2015.12.004] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2016); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Grows only on rock faces, rooting in crevices in rocks of the Witteberg Group sandstones. From: Bergh, NG; McKenzie, RJ. 2016. A revision of Heterolepis Cass. (Asteraceae: Cichorioideae). S. African J. Bot. 105: 194-210. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2015.12.004] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2016); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Rock crevices on mountain slopes. From: Cron, GV; et al. 2019. Asteraceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 423-682. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
In the southern and western foothills of the Suurberg and Klein Winterhoek ranges near Kirkwood in the Eastern Cape. From: Bergh, NG; McKenzie, RJ. 2016. A revision of Heterolepis Cass. (Asteraceae: Cichorioideae). S. African J. Bot. 105: 194-210. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2015.12.004] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2016); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Rare, confined to Winterhoek and Suurberg Mts. From: Cron, GV; et al. 2019. Asteraceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1): 423-682. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
January to December
200 to 350 m
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Names and Sources
Gorteria mitis Burm.f.
Published in: Fl. Ind. (N. L. Burman) Prodr. Fl. Cap.: 28 (1768)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asterales
FAMILY Asteraceae
SUBFAMILY Cichorioideae
TRIBE Incertae Sedis
GENUS Heterolepis
SPECIES mitis
7 results for Heterolepis mitis (Burm.f.) DC.
Barcode: NBG1540717-0 Collector(s) & number: McKenzie, RJ, 3147 | 2014-8-24
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Kirkwood, Addo Elephant National Park, Kabouga section, near Kabouga Cottage.
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Barcode: PRE0723305-0 Collector(s) & number: Thode, J, A2208 | 1929-12-
South Africa, Western Cape, FRANSCH HOEK PASS
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Barcode: NBG1465336-1 Collector(s) & number: McKenzie, RJ, 3147 | 2014-8-24
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Kirkwood, Addo Elephant National Park, Kabouga section, near Kabouga Cottage.
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Barcode: NBG0280464-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 8036 | 2013-12-13
South Africa, Eastern Cape, 12 km NW of Kirkwood. Suurberge, ridge 300 m NE of Kabouga cottage.
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Barcode: NBG1465336-2 Collector(s) & number: McKenzie, RJ, 3147 | 2014-8-24
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Kirkwood, Addo Elephant National Park, Kabouga section, near Kabouga Cottage.
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Barcode: PRE0560371-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Jaarsveld, EJ, 10835 | 1989-4-14
South Africa, Eastern Cape, 1 km North of Sapkamma Station.
General notes: Valley bushveld. Sandstone. Rock crevices. E-slope.
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Barcode: NBG1465342-0 Collector(s) & number: McKenzie, RJ, RJMcK 3135/1 | 2013-10-29
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Kirkwood, north of Sapkamma Siding, Soutkloof.
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2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Asteraceae Cron, GV; et al.In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(1)423-682
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2016
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A revision of Heterolepis Cass. (Asteraceae: Cichorioideae) Bergh, NG; McKenzie, RJSouth African Journal of Botany 105: 194-210
1865
FLORA CHAPTER
Campanulaceae Sonder, OWIn: WH Harvey & OW Sonder (eds), Rubiaceae to Campanulaceae. Flora Capensis 3: 530-605
Lovell Reeve & Co., London
No results found for Heterolepis mitis (Burm.f.) DC.
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