Geigeria pectidea
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Geigeria pectidea (DC.) Harv. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Riviervermeerbos, Vermeerbos, Vermeerbossie |
| English common name(s): | River vermeerbush, Vermeerbush, River geigeria |
| Synonym(s): | Polychaetia pectidea DC. Triplocephalum glabrifolium Klatt |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Stem shrubby, terete, glabrous; leaves broadly linear, or linear oblong, narrowed to the base, cuspidate-mucronate, pungent, flat, midribbed and margined, subdenticulate, impress-dotted; heads 4 or more together, cymoso-glomerate, sessile; outer inv.-scales shortly leaf-topped, inner ovate, cuspidate, pungent, outer pappus of oblong, blunt, inner of bristle-pointed scales; achenes very villous. I have only seen a flowering branch, 3–4 inches long. Leaves nearly uncial, about 2 lines broad, rigid, strongly midribbed, somewhat veiny and remarkably pungent-mucronate. It has all the gen. characters of a Geigeria. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Geigeria pectidea: groei effens hoër (as Geigeria ornativa), tot 50 cm hoog. Plant is sterk vertak met blomme aan die punte. (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/2.8 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/50 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
