PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASTERALES / ASTERACEAE / ASTEROIDEAE / ANTHEMIDEAE / OSMITOPSIS / NANA
A 3-15 cm high, glabrous suffrutex. Stems simple or ramifying, ascending-erect, somewhat striate, densely leafy, gradually more sparsely upwards, finally nude and marked with leaf-scars, terminally bearing a capitulum. Cortex light brown. Leaves spreading or reflexed herbaceous, ± narrowly oblong or obovate-long, 0.5-2.5 cm long, 1-4.5 mm wide acute, entire or serrate apically; teeth to 8, ± triangular, 0.2-1.2 mm long, 0.1-1 mm wide, acute. Upper leaves smaller with fewer teeth. Involucre campanulate, 0.5-1.5 cm wide. Involucral bracts 15-25, 2-3-seriate, oblong or obovate-oblong, outer lanceolate, 3.5-6.5 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, laterally ± scarious and sometimes purplish, apically irregularly serrate-denticulate-serrulate, obtuse or acute-acuminate. Ray-florets 10-20, female, fertile sterile, sometimes both conditions in same capitulum, glabrous. Tube cylindrical-funnel-shaped, 1-2.5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide. Lamina lorate or ± narrowly elliptic-oblong, 8-14 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, ± distinctly 6-9-veined, apically ± deeply 2-3-lobed. Style 1-3 mm long, simple or bifid; style-branches up 0.7 mm long, spreading, somewhat acute stylopodium terete, up to 0.5 mm long. Disc florets numerous, > 80, perfect. Corolla tubular, swollen at style base, gradually widening upwards, 3-4.2 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide; corolla lobes ovate-triangular, 0.5-1 mm long, spreading reflexed. Style 2.5-4 mm long; stylopodium branches 0.4-0.6 mm long, spreading stylopodium terete, 0.4-0.5 mm 1.6-2.5. Anthers 1.6-2.5 mm long; apical appendage ovate, rounded. Achenes obovate-oblong, 1-2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, somewhat three-four-edged; stylopodium yellow-white pappus 0. From: Bremer, K. 1972. The genus Osmitopsis (Compositae). Bot. Not. 125: 9-48. [All rights reserved]
Perennial to 15 cm with erect stems from woody rootstock. Leaves oblanceolate, reflexed, toothed above, 5-25 mm long. Flower heads radiate, solitary, yellow with white rays; pappus absent. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Asteraceae: Osmitopsis Cass. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 402-402. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
O. nana is sometimes confused with pinnatifida but it is easily recognized on the achenes, which lack pappus, but have developed stylopodium. From: Bremer, K. 1972. The genus Osmitopsis (Compositae). Bot. Not. 125: 9-48. [All rights reserved]
Grows in rock crevices. From: Bremer, K. 1972. The genus Osmitopsis (Compositae). Bot. Not. 125: 9-48. [All rights reserved]
Sandstone rocks mostly above 600 m. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Asteraceae: Osmitopsis Cass. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 402-402. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
The distribution is somewhat discontinuous. Most collections from Helderberg and Hottentots Holland Mts, but there are outliers at Winterhoek Mtn. in Tulbagh Division and Genandendal in Caledon Division. From: Bremer, K. 1972. The genus Osmitopsis (Compositae). Bot. Not. 125: 9-48. [All rights reserved]
Grootwinterhoek Mtns to Genadendal. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Asteraceae: Osmitopsis Cass. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 402-402. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
October to February
480 to 1220 m
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Names and Sources
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asterales
FAMILY Asteraceae
SUBFAMILY Asteroideae
TRIBE Anthemideae
GENUS Osmitopsis
SPECIES nana
18 results for Osmitopsis nana Schltr.
Barcode: NBG0234392-0 Collector(s) & number: McDonald, DJ, 845 | 1982-10-22
South Africa, Western Cape, Stellenbosch. Jonkershoek, on side of contour path between Sosyskloof and the forest below Haelkop. Swartboskloof.
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Barcode: PRE0642633-0 Collector(s) & number: McDonald, DJ, 845 | 1982-10-22
South Africa, Western Cape, STELLENBOSCH; SWARTBOSCHKLOOF; JONKERSHOEK; CONTOUR PATH BETWEEN SOSYSKLOOF AND THE FOREST BELOW HAELKOP
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Barcode: PRE0192330-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Merwe, P, 826 | 1961-11-24
South Africa, Western Cape, SWARTBOSKLOOF DIST.
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Barcode: PRE0192329-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 9854 | 1896-12-28
South Africa, Western Cape, GENADENDAL; IN MT.
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Barcode: PRE0807845-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 9811 | 1944-1-6
South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek State Forest: South Eastern side of Guardian Peak.
General notes: Det: K. Bremer Conf: P.P.J. Herman
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Barcode: PRE0586955-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 9854 | 1896-12-28
South Africa, Western Cape, GENADENDAL; IN MT.
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Barcode: NBG0234397-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 5494 | 1974-11-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Silverstreams in Waterkloof, E of Villiersdorp.
General notes: Alt. 2800 ft. S slope, rock faces. Locally frequent in crevices. Very small compact shrublets, rays white, discs yellow.
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Barcode: NBG0234391-0 Collector(s) & number: Runnalls, P, 628 | 1993-11-26
South Africa, Western Cape, Somerset West. Helderberg Nature Reserve. Woodies Walk-krantzes.
General notes: Alt. over 600 m. Appears to grow only in cracks in vertical rocks. SE facing. Height 100 mm. Small woody herb, dwarf, flowers white. Leaves small, stunted.
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Barcode: PRE0807801-0 Collector(s) & number: Borchardt, EJ, 320 | 1936-11-
South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek State Forest: Swartboskloof.
General notes: Det: K. Bremer
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2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Asteraceae: Osmitopsis Cass. Manning, JC; Goldblatt, PIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 402-402
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1972
No results found for Osmitopsis nana Schltr.
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