Asteraceae
Helichrysum

Helichrysum goetzeanum O.Hoffm.

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30: 428 (1901)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania to S. Tropical Africa.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005

Morphology General Habit
Perennial herb, scrambling to 3 m high; branches white-tomentose.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves lanceolate, 3–18 cm long, 1–5.5 cm wide, base cuneate into a short pseudopetiole but half-clasping the stem proximally, margins crenulate (or entire outside our area), apex acute and mucronate, sparsely pilose above, white-tomentose beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
Capitula 7–8 mm long, heterogamous, many together in terminal lax leafy corymbose panicles; stalks of individual capitula 5–10 mm long; phyllaries shiny pale yellow, multiseriate, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–7.5 mm long, glabrous but for the slightly pilose and glandular stereome, acute; receptacle honeycombed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Florets yellow; outer florets many, in several series, tube filiform, 1.8–2.4 mm long, lobes 0.1–0.2 mm long, style 2.5–2.7 mm long; inner florets many, tube cylindrical, 2.3–2.9 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long and glandular, anthers 1.3–1.4 mm long, style 2.7–3.4 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes ellipsoid, 0.8–0.9 mm long, glabrous; pappus whitish, 2–3 mm long, barbellate, caducous individually.
Habitat
Bamboo zone; outside our area in margins of montane forest; (1700–)2400–3100 m
Distribution
T7
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0