Geigeria ornativa ornativa
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Geigeria ornativa O.Hoffm. subsp. ornativa |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Vermeerbos, Vermeerbossie, Vomeerbos, Misbeksiektebos |
| English common name(s): | Common geigeria |
| Synonym(s): | Geigeria ornativa O.Hoffm. (1894) Geigeria passerinoides (L'Hér.) Harv. (1865) Polychaetia passerinoides (L'Hér.) DC. (1838) Geigeria africana Griess. (1830) Geigeria africana Griess. subsp. africana (1830) Geigeria appendiculata O.Hoffm. & Muschl. (1911) Geigeria eenii S.Moore (1899) Geigeria luederitziana O.Hoffm. (1893) Geigeria nonikamensis Heering (1911) Zeyheria acaulis Spreng. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Stemless or forked; leaves crowded at the crown, linear-elongate, acute, tapering much at base, entire or denticulate, the younger ones setoso-ciliate; heads sessile, seemingly tufted (from the non-development of internodes); inner inv.-scales acuminate, ciliate; all the scales of the pappus bristle-pointed. A minute, scarcely branched plant, 1–3 inches diameter; the leaves 1–2 inches long, 1 line wide. Several crowded, but not truly fascicled heads in the forks, or on the sides of scarcely developed branches. Recept. densely clothed with setaceous fimbrils. Disc-fl. with narrow-lanceolate, externally scabrous, erect lobes, and strong marginal nerves. Pappus of 8–16 scales, all of them bristle-pointed. Dwarfer than G. passerinoides, which it much resembles, but has a different pappus. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Low-growing, perennial herb, sometimes stemless but usually with an ascending stem up to 30 cm long. Stems branched, rounded below, angular, flattened and ribbed above. Leaves along the stems and some in a basal rosette, sessile and clasping at the base, narrowly oblanceolate, up to c. 10 cm long, scaberulous or almost hairless and pitted with glands on both surfaces; margin finely and shallowly toothed. Capitula solitairy in axils of leaves or branches or crowded in stemless specimens, bright yellow, c. 1 cm in diameter; involucre bracts c. 3-seriate. Ray-florets up to 1 cm long, 3-dentate at the apex. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Geigeria ornativa: laaggroeiend tot 30 cm hoog; blare by jong plante groei uit 'n middelpunt straalvormig, waar ook die pragtige geel blom sit. Ouer plante kan vertak, die blomme sit in die hoekie van die vertakking. (Plantstories 20, Anka Eichhoff) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 27 Apr 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/500 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
