Euryops evansii

PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASTERALES / ASTERACEAE / ASTEROIDEAE / SENECIONEAE / EURYOPS / EVANSII / PARVUS

Euryops evansii Schltr. subsp. parvus B.Nord.

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Morphological description

Shrublets 1.5-2.5 dm high, repeatedly branching from the base. Leaves narrowly oblong, 1-3.5 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, midribbed, without lateral veins. Leaf-teeth 3, ovate, 1-2 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, acute, apiculate. Leaf-margins irregularly and bluntly denticulate. Peduncles solitary or seldom 2 together, 2-3.5 cm long, overraging the leaves, c. 0.8-1 mm thick, striate. Involucre 1-1.5 cm in diam. Involucral bracts 10-13, 6-9 mm long, green with a reddish-purplish tinge, connate to 1/4-1/3; the free lobes lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, indistinctly veined, puberulous-tipped. Ray-florets: Tube 2 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina narrowly elliptic-oblong, 8-10 mm long, 3 mm wide, 4-nerved. Style branches 0.6-0.8 mm long. (Staminodes 2, filiform.) Disc-florets c. 50. Corolla 5-5.5 mm long. Tube 2-2.3 mm long, cylindrical. Limb narrowly campanulate, 3-3.2 mm long; lobes ovate. 1 mm long. Anthers 2 mm long. Style branches 0.8 mm long. Pappus bristles 2-4 mm long, fairly smooth-laxly barbellate with: suberect and appressed teeth. Achenes (immature) narrowly oblong, c. 2 mm long, glabrous, with c. 8 longitudinal ribs. From: Nordenstam, RB. 1968. The genus Euryops I. Opera Bot. 20: 7-409. [All rights reserved]

Diagnostic description

Ssp. parvus is a small diffuse shrublet with denticulate leaf-margins and much smaller leaves than the other two subspecies. The striking differences in habit and size between ssp. parvus and ssp. evansii cannot be explained merely as a result of modification. Ssp. evansii reaches the same altitudes as the former without changing its characteristic dendroid habit and large leaf-size. From: Nordenstam, RB. 1968. The genus Euryops I. Opera Bot. 20: 7-409. [All rights reserved]

Distribution

Ssp. parvus is only known from two localities in the Giant's Castle area in the Drakensbergen, where it seems to be confined to the alpine belt (collected at c. 2700-2900 m s.m.). The distribution thus lies within the range of ssp. evansii, and the interrelation between these taxa deserves further study when more material becomes available. From: Nordenstam, RB. 1968. The genus Euryops I. Opera Bot. 20: 7-409. [All rights reserved]

Flowering time

September to January

Altitude

2700 to 2900 m

Occurrence records map

This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations

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Residence status

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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