PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASTERALES / ASTERACEAE / ASTEROIDEAE / GNAPHALIEAE / ARROWSMITHIA / CORYMBOSA
Shrub up to 120 cm high, stems and branches greyish-brown densely glandular-setose, striate, rough with the remains of leaf bases. Leaves dense at the ends of the branches, sessile linear, 3.5-4 cm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, margins revolute, midrib prominent below, upper surface densely glandular setose, under surface lanate with long, white curly hairs, glandular-setose on the midrib, apex shortly apiculate. Capitula arranged in dense terminal corymbs, sessile, turbinate 1-1.5 cm long, 1 cm broad at the top. Involucral bracts imbricate, in about 6 rows, outer row ovate 3.5 mm by 1.5 mm innermost linear, 1 cm by 1.5 mm all glandular setose and lanate on the back, greenish with dark brown membranous margins. Receptacle 3 mm diam. slightly convex, honeycombed with the margins of the pits shortly produced. Ray florets sterile, corolla 1.25 cm long, tube very slender, pubescent, 6.5 mm long, limb oblong 1.5 mm broad, three-dentate at the apex; style rudimentary, enclosed in the corolla tube; ovary rudimentary, less than 1 mm long; pappus caducous, bristles 1.25-4 mm long. Disc florets fertile, corolla 6.5 mm long, lower 3.5 mm slender, pubescent, upper part inflated, lobes 1 mm long with thickened tips; style deeply divided, branches more or less truncate with apical hairs longest in the centre; achene 3 mm long, oblong, striate, glabrous crowned with a short, thick beak enclosed in the corolla tube; pappus caducous of slender setose bristles 1.25-4 mm long. The flowering time is late summer to early winter and the shrubs produce an abundance of dense corymbs of bright yellow capitula. From: Anderson, JG; Codd, LEW; Dyer, RA; Henderson, MD; Killick, DJB; De Winter, B. 1961. New and interesting taxa from southern Africa. Kirkia 1: 100-118. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23500535] [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
Erect, rather spindly shrub up to c. 1.5 m tall, young branches clad in closely imbricated leaves. Leaves linear, abruptly acute, up to 40 x 3 mm, margins revolute, thinly woolly below, glandular-hispid above and on the midrib below. Heads several crowded at the branch tips. Involucre turbinate, 12-15 x 8-10 mm, bracts margined dark brown, glandular-hispid on the backs. Flowers yellow, rays sterile, disc fertile. Achenes c. 3.5 mm, cylindric, closely ribbed, glabrous. Pappus of scabrid bristles c. 3.5-4 mm, caducous. From: Hilliard, OM. 1977. Compositae in Natal. Univ. Natal, Pietermaritzburg. [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
M. corymbosa has been found only on the Drakensberg mountains and always growing on the banks or in the dry beds of rivers. The possibility of describing a new genus for the specimens placed now in M. corymbosa was considered but rejected on account of the great similarity in habit between these and the rest of the species of Macowania. The grounds for separation would have been the sterile ray florets and truncate style branches of the disc florets. In M. revoluta the capitula are sometimes borne in loose corymbs and the achenes are nearly glabrous whereas in M. corymbosa the capitula are always densely corymbose and the achenes are striate and glabrous. M. revoluta is the only other species to have brown membranous margins to the involucral bracts but the capitula are campanulate not turbinate. The short, caducous pappus is another feature common to both the above species. Geographically, however, they are distinct, M. revoluta being confined to the Eastern Cape Province. From: Anderson, JG; Codd, LEW; Dyer, RA; Henderson, MD; Killick, DJB; De Winter, B. 1961. New and interesting taxa from southern Africa. Kirkia 1: 100-118. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23500535] [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
Easily recognized by its dark-margined involucral bracts, a character shared only with M. revoluta Oliv., which is seemingly confined to the Amatola Mts. and nearby parts of the eastern Cape. From: Hilliard, OM. 1977. Compositae in Natal. Univ. Natal, Pietermaritzburg. [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
Rocky river bed. From: Anderson, JG; Codd, LEW; Dyer, RA; Henderson, MD; Killick, DJB; De Winter, B. 1961. New and interesting taxa from southern Africa. Kirkia 1: 100-118. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23500535] [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
Forms part of the shrub communities in boulder-strewn gullies, along streamsides and on steep valley walls. From: Hilliard, OM. 1977. Compositae in Natal. Univ. Natal, Pietermaritzburg. [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
Natal. From: Anderson, JG; Codd, LEW; Dyer, RA; Henderson, MD; Killick, DJB; De Winter, B. 1961. New and interesting taxa from southern Africa. Kirkia 1: 100-118. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23500535] [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
Endemic in the Natal Drakensberg from about Cathedral Peak to Giant's Castle. From: Hilliard, OM. 1977. Compositae in Natal. Univ. Natal, Pietermaritzburg. [All rights reserved] As: Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
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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
Published in: Taxon 66(6): 1433 (2017)
Type: South Africa, Natal, Bergville Distr., Umlambonja River, Jul 1936, Marriot s.n. (PRE0180740-0, holo.)
Macowania corymbosa M.D.Hend.
Published in: Kirkia 1: 114 (1961)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asterales
FAMILY Asteraceae
SUBFAMILY Asteroideae
TRIBE Gnaphalieae
GENUS Arrowsmithia
SPECIES corymbosa
20 results for Arrowsmithia corymbosa (M.D.Hend.) N.G.Bergh
Barcode: PRE0180743-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 12902 | 1946-7-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, DRAKENSBERG; CATHEDRAL PEAK; CAMBONJA VALLEY IN OLD ROCKY RIVER CHANNEL
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0180740-0 Collector(s) & number: Marriott, WE, PRE 22503 | 1936-7-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, DRAKENSBERG; BERGVILLE DIST.; UMLAMBONJA RIVER
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Barcode: PRE0180745-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 15494 | 1949-7-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, DRAKENSBERG; BERGVILLE DIST.; CATHEDRAL PEAK
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0180748-0 Collector(s) & number: Trauseld, WR, 1075 | 1969-5-17
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, CATHKIN; GREYS PASS
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Barcode: PRE0180747-0 Collector(s) & number: Trauseld, WR, 953 | 1968-1-29
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, GIANT'S CASTLE GAME; GIANT HUT AREA
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0080943-0 Collector(s) & number: Scott, 113 | 1984-2-13
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Harrismith. Cathedral Peak. C15- along road
General notes: Yellow flowers. 1m high.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0087159-0 Collector(s) & number: Scott, J, 249 | 1984-9-29
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Cathedral Peak, between Catchment IV and Catchment V
General notes: Riverine area. North western aspect. Flowers yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0180744-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 10216 | 1944-7-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, DRAKENSBERG; CATHEDRAL PEAK DIST.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0041274-0 Collector(s) & number: Killick, DJB, 1681 | 1952-12-15
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Bergville. Cathedral Peak Forest Res. Station.
General notes: Shrub, c.3.6". Occasional in boulder bed. Scrub- upper reaches of Indumeni River. Heads yellow.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0101619-2 Collector(s) & number: Farrell, V, 22 | 1987-3-10
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Cathedral Peak, Ndumeni Valley at Catchment XV
General notes: (Wildfire) Shrub. Sticky leaves. flowers yellow. 1.20m high
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0101619-1 Collector(s) & number: Farrell, V, 22 | 1987-3-10
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Cathedral Peak, Ndumeni Valley at Catchment XV
General notes: (Wildfire) Shrub. Sticky leaves. flowers yellow. 1.20m high
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0241728-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 15494 | 1949-7-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Weenen Dist. Drakensberg. Cathedral area.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0584981-0 Collector(s) & number: Leverkusen, WL, RSA15193 | 1993-1-29
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, am rechten Ufer des Tseketseko FluB, FuBweg zu den "Blue Pools", ca. 1600 m, Cathedral Peak State Forest area (Mlambonja Wilderness area) nördl. Drakensberge.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0271848-0 Collector(s) & number: Bergh, N, 2177 | 2010-1-12
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal. Central Drakensberg. Valley below Ships Prow Pass. 29°06'48.1"S: 29°22'24.3"E. Altitude: 1942 m.
General notes: Where Deumhluvatini River crosses contour path from Injisuthi Camp towards Monk's Cowl. Piparian shrubland in grassland. High watertable. River-bed boulders. Dolerite/basalt. Gentle slope. At edge of forest. Tallish, erect shrub, visually striking with large, very sticky glandular leaves spreading-erect from upper part of twig below terminal synflorescence of 3-10 heads corymbosely arranged. Heads 1,5 cm in diameter (including rays). Localised. Growing in part of riverbed.
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Barcode: PRE0180746-0 Collector(s) & number: Edwards, D, 2135 | 1957-7-8
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, DRAKENSBERG; BERGVILLE DIST.; CATHEDRAL RIDGE SLOPE OF INNER HORN
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0642045-0 Collector(s) & number: Hilliard, OM, 16295 | 1983-1-18
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, BERGVILLE DIST.; CATHEDRAL PEAK FOR. RES.,TRIBUTARY OF TSEKETSEKE
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0180749-0 Collector(s) & number: White, F, 10595 | 1973-3-19
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, DRAKENSBERG; CATHEDRAL PEAK DIST.; INDUMENI STREAM
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0180741-0 Collector(s) & number: Killick, DJB, 1681 | 1952-2-15
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, BERGVILLE DIST.; CATHEDRAL PEAK FOR.; UPPER REACHES OF INDUMENI RIVER
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0027645-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 10216 | 1944-7-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Drakensberg. Cathedral Peak area.
General notes: Alt. 7000-8000 ft. River bank and steep S slopes. Quoted in Journ. S.A. Bot. Vol. 16 pt1 1950 p.21.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2017
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Species-level phylogenetic analysis in the Relhania clade of “everlastings” and a new generic treatment of species previously assigned to Macowania and Arrowsmithia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) Bentley, J; Verboom, GA; Bergh, NGTaxon 66(6)1421-1438
1977
1961
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
New and interesting taxa from southern Africa Anderson, JG; Codd, LEW; Dyer, RA; Henderson, MD; Killick, DJB; De Winter, BKirkia 1: 100-118
No results found for Arrowsmithia corymbosa (M.D.Hend.) N.G.Bergh
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